brm_886083 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 180
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
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 : Marc Aurèle assis à gauche sur un aigle debout sur un foudre, s’envolant à droite, les ailes déployées.
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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