brm_949454 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 180
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau portrait de Marc Aurèle. Revers agréable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVVS M AN-TONINVS PIVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Divus Marcus Antoninus Pius”, (Le divin Marc Antonin pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSECRATIO.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite sur un foudre, les ailes déployées et la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Commentary
Type inhabituel.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(+180)
Consecration of Commodus
Marc Aurèle, campaigning against the Yazygues, falls ill and dies on March 17, 180 in Sirmium or Vienna, perhaps from the plague which begins to ravage the Empire again. The author of the Pensées is deified by his son Commodus.
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