brm_746046 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 154-155
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 29,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan épais, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste de Marc Aurèle. Usure régulière. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII FIL.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°01).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT VIIII - COS II/ S|C.
Reverse description : Minerve (Pallas) casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une chouette de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche avec le bouclier à ses pieds.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate nonum Consul iterum”, (Revêtu de la neuvième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois/ avec l’accord du Sénat).
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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