brm_444076 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 180
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire pour ce type peu commun. Joli revers et belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de l’Electronic Auction 103 de CNG, n°172
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVVS M AN-TONINVS PIVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Divus Marcus Antoninus Pius”, (le divin Marc Antonin pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSECRATIO/ S|C.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, la tête tournée à droite sur un autel orné d’une guirlande.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(+180)
Consecration of Commodus
Marc Aurèle, campaigning against the Yazygues, falls ill and dies on March 17, 180 in Sirmium or Vienna, perhaps from the plague which begins to ravage the Empire again. The author of the Pensées is deified by his son Commodus.
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