E-auction 336-250912 - brm_528155 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 70 € |
| Price : | 53 € |
| Maximum bid : | 55 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2019 14:21:30 |
| bidders : | 11 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 172
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,08 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, bien centré. Métal cristallisé au revers. Joli portrait
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor d’Alexandre (Vert-en-Drouais)
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXVI.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate sextum vicesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-sixième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP VI - CO-S III.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Imperator sextum Consul tertium”, (Sixième acclamation impériale, consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce revers semble beaucoup plus rare que le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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