v18_0385 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 152.00 €
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 550.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 152.00 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 142
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 14e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan très large. Magnifique patine vert clair, légèrement granuleuse au revers, marbrée de rouge. Très joli revers où les instruments pontificaux sont bien visibles. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection du XIXe siècle du Sud de la France
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F COS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle césar à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius Consul”, (Aurèle césar fils du pieux auguste consul).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG// SC.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : couteau de sacrifice, aspersoir, vase “capis”, lituus et simpulum tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (La Piété de l’auguste).
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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