brm_999688 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 02-12/168
Date: 170
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Portrait agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG - TR P XXIIII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate quartum vicesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-quatrième puissance tribunicienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS - III.
Reverse description : Diane drapée debout à gauche, tenant une flèche de la main droite tendue et un arc de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fortuna Reduci Consul tertium”, (Le retour de la Fortune, consul pour la troisième fois).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Augustus
Caesar from 139, wearing the consulship for 140, Marc Aurèle receives tribunician power in 147 and succeeds Antonin in 161. His personal reign is marked by the Parthian war (162-165). After the death of Lucius Verus in 169, he had to face the Germanic invasions and the plague which ravaged the Empire. Marcus Aurelius associates his son Commodus with the Empire from 175 and dies of the plague in 180 in Vienna.
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