v11_0278 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 36)
Date: 169
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 36e
Coments on the condition:
Flan extrêmement large, éclaté à 7 heures. Très beau portrait. Légèrement piqué au revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXIII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestas vicesimus tertius”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-troisième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVTI - AVG COS III/ S|C.
Reverse translation : “Saluti Augusti Consul tertius”, (La Santé de l’auguste 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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