v09_0249 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 157-158
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 750 ‰
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait / Flan irrégulier au revers et frappé avec un coin légèrement usé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAES - ANTON AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc-Aurèle césar à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : "Aurelius Cæsar Antonini Augusti Pii Filii", (Aurèle césar fils d'Antonin le Pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT X-II - C-OS II.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et de la gauche un sceptre long, appuyée sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : (Tribunicia Potestas duodecimus Consul secundus", (revêtu de la douzième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Caesar
Born on April 26, 121, Marc Aurèle lost his father at the age of 9. He is the grandson of Marcus Annius Verus, brother-in-law of Hadrian and related to Trajan, and the son of Domitia Lucilla, half-sister of Hadrian. He received a careful education with Herod Atticus and Fronton as teachers. In 135, he converted to stoicism, the source of his inspiration for writing the Pensées. After the death of Aelius, he is adopted by Antoninus, just like Lucius Verus, at the request of the dying Hadrian. After July 10, 138, he was engaged to Faustina, born in 128 or 132, whom he married in 145. Caesar from 139, wearing the consulate in 140, Marc Aurèle received tribunician power in 147 and succeeded Antoninus in 161.
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