bpv_312396 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Césarée Maritime, Samarie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré, court sur la légende. Beau portrait de Marc Aurèle. Joli revers. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR - [ANTONINVS].
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL PRIMA FL - AVG CAESAREA.
Reverse description : Tête de Sérapis à droite.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Prima Flavia Augusta Cæsarensis”, (La colonie des Césaréens, la première flavienne de l’Auguste).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible. Type recherché.
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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