brm_886173 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 156
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Marc Aurèle. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAES - ANTON AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Antoninus Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar Antonin auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT - X - COS II/ -|-// SC.
Reverse description : Fortuna/Spes (la Fortune/ L’espérance) debout à droite, drapée, tenant de la main gauche un gouvernail et relevant le pli de son vêtement de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate decimum Consul iterum”, (Revêtu de la dizième puissance tribunitienne, Consul pour la deuxième fois).
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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