brm_969230 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
175.00 €(Approx. 189.00$ | 145.25£)
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 168
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,97 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli revers. Patine marron
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 POT XXII IMP V COS III// S|C.
Reverse description : Æquitas (l’Équité) drapée assise à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Tribunicia Potestate duovicesimum Imperator quintum Consul tertium", (Rêvetu de la vingt-deuxième puissance tribunitienne de la cinquième acclamation impériale 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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