brm_949279 - MARCUS AURELIUS As
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Price : 180.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : As
Date: 163
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Joli portrait de Marc Aurèle. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVREL - ANTONINVS AVG P M.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pontifex Maximus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVTI AVGVSTOR TRP XVII// COS III/ S|C.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche devant un autel et nourrissant un serpent.
Reverse translation : “Saluti Augustorum Tribunicia Potestate septimum decimum// Consul tertium”, (La Santé des augustes revêtu de la seizième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
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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