bpv_309317 - MARCUS AURELIUS Hemiassarion
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Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Hemiassarion
Date: 161-180
Mint name / Town : Silandus, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Portrait de toute beauté de haut relief. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine vert noir
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste d’Athéna à droite avec l’égide sur la poitrine, coiffé du casque corinthien à triple aigrette.
Reverse
Reverse description : Telesphorus debout de face.
Reverse legend : SILAN-DEWN.
Reverse translation : (De Silandus).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection von Aulock n° 3172, pl. 101.
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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