v18_0388 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 32)
Date: 01/03-161
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 24,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait de Marc Aurèle pour sa dernière émission en tant que César. Revers historiquement intéressant avec une jolie patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS - CAESAR AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Buste, tête nue de Marc Aurèle César à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O°2).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle César auguste fils du pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT XV - COS III/ S|C.
Reverse description : Faustine jeune sous les traits de Pietas (la Piété) debout à gauche, tenant deux enfants dans ses bras et deux autres à ses pieds.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas quintus decimus Consul tertius”, (Revêtu de la quinzième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième 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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