E-auction 585-541527 - MARCUS AURELIUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 139-160
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,99 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée sur un flan court. Revers agréable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ILLISIBLE.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna debout à gauche tenant un bouclier.
Reverse legend : NIKOPOLEITWN.
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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