Live auction - brm_951273 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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| Estimate : | 550 € |
| Price : | 410 € |
| Maximum bid : | 450 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 October 2024 14:33:20 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 08-12/166
Date: 166
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,62 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique portrait de Marc Aurèle, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Parthicus Maximus”, (Marc Antonin auguste arméniaque grand parthique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR P XX IMP IIII COS III/ PAX.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main gauche et une corne d’abondance de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum Imperator quartum Consul tertium// Pax”, (revêtu de la vingtième puissance tribunitienne et de la quatrième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois// la Paix).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible. Ce denier est le type normal de la treizième émission de Rome selon le classement de Szaivert.
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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MARCUS AURELIUS Denier MS/AU
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