v61_0138 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
MONNAIES 61 (2014)
Starting price : 780.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 780.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce
Date: 143
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 15e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier. Très beau portrait juvénile de Marc Aurèle. Revers de style fin à l’usure superficielle. Très belle patine verte foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F COS.
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 Consul", (Aurèle césar fils du pieux auguste consul).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVVEN-TAS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Iuventas (la Jeunesse) drapée, debout à gauche, versant de la main gauche de l’encens au-dessus d’un candélabre et tenant une patère de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Iuventas”, (la Jeunesse).
Commentary
Très beau portrait juvénile de Marc Aurèle.
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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