bpv_763222 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 175-180
Mint name / Town : Achaïe, Corinthe
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 11,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Augustus” (L’empereur Antonin Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : C L I COR.
Reverse description : Diane/Artémis marchant à gauche tenant un arc et une torche ; un cerf et un chien à ses pieds.
Commentary
Rubans de type 3.
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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