brm_708192 - MARCUS AURELIUS Dupondius
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Type : Dupondius
Date: 165
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 13,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais exemplaire bien identifiable. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS P M.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O).
Obverse translation : "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Pontifex Maximus", (Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT XIX IMP II COS III.
Reverse description : Mars debout à droite tenant une lance et un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate Novum decimum Imperator iterum Consul tertium” (Revêtu de la dix-neuvième puissance tribunicienne, de la deuxième acclamation impérial, 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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