brm_816525 - MARCUS AURELIUS As
220.00 €(Approx. 233.20$ | 182.60£)
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Type : As
Date: décembre-mars
Date: 179-180
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,96 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli revers. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc-Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse translation : “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus” (Marc Aurèle Antonin Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR P XXXIIII IMP X COS III // S C.
Reverse description : Louve debout à droite, allaitant les jumeaux Rémus et Romulus.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate quartum tricesimum Imperator decimum Consul tertium” (Revêtu de la trente-quatrième puissance tribunicienne, de la dixième acclamation impériale et du troisième consulat).
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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