bpv_243960 - MARCUS AURELIUS Triassaria
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Triassaria
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Docimeium, Phrygie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Beau portrait. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Tom Vossen
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste voilé, lauré et drapé de la Boulé à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : IERA. - BOULH.
Obverse translation : (Sainte assemblée).
Reverse
Reverse description : Temple hexastyle à fronton triangulaire surmonté d’acrotères timbré d’un Thêta.
Reverse legend : MAKE-DONW// DOKIME/WN/ Q.
Reverse translation : (Macédoine/ de Docimeium).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée de Copenhague (Cop. 352, pl. 10).
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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