bpv_960884 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 161-169
Mint name / Town : Zeugma, Syrie, Commagène
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,11 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée. Joli revers. Patine foncée et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite.
Obverse legend : AUT KAI M AURH ANTWNINOS.
Reverse
Reverse description : Légende en deux lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : ZEUGMA/TEWN/ A.
Reverse translation : (de Zeugma).
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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