brm_180844 - MARCUS AURELIUS Dupondius
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Type : Dupondius
Date: 171
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et ovale. Usure régulière. Jolie portrait servi par une agréable patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXV.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate quintum vicesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-cinquième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CO-S - III.
Reverse description : Jupiter assis à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite, un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul tertium”, (Consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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