brm_926637 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 165
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Revers agréable. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse legend : M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS P M.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Pontifex Maximus”, (Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste arméniaque grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT XIX IMP II COS III/ S|C.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant de la main un bâton placé au-dessus d’un globe et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas nonum decimum Imperator iterum Consul tertium”, (Revêtu de la dix-neuvième puissance tribunitienne de la deuxième acclamation impériale 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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