v18_0400 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 180
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 750 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 40e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine foncée. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers sur le bûcher
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVVS M ANT-ONINVS PIVS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Divus Marcus Antoninus Pius”, (le divin Marc Antonin pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSECRATIO.
Reverse description : Bûcher funéraire à quatre étages surmonté d'un quadrige vu de face.
Reverse translation : “Consecratio”, (Consécration).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(+180)
Consecration of Commodus
Marc Aurèle, campaigning against the Yazygues, falls ill and dies on March 17, 180 in Sirmium or Vienna, perhaps from the plague which begins to ravage the Empire again. The author of the Pensées is deified by his son Commodus.
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