bpv_727793 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 166-167
Mint name / Town : Décapolis, Abila
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite de Marc Aurèle.
Obverse legend : AUT KAI M AUR - ANTWNEINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antwneinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste de la Tyché à droite.
Reverse legend : SELEUK-ABIAA LS.
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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