bpv_858484 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Price : 300.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 177-180
Mint name / Town : Aelia Capitolina, Judée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,83 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Jolis bustes, notamment de Sérapis. Patine vert foncé et sable
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES ANTONINVS ET COMMODVS.
Obverse description : Bustes confrontés de Marc Aurèle et de Commode.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Antoninus et Commodus”.
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL AEL CAP.
Reverse description : Buste drapé de Sérapis à droite.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Aelia Capitolina”, (Colonie Aelia Capitolina.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(+180)
Consecration of Commodus
Marc Aurèle, campaigning against the Yazygues, falls ill and dies on March 17, 180 in Sirmium or Vienna, perhaps from the plague which begins to ravage the Empire again. The author of the Pensées is deified by his son Commodus.
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