E-auction 318-235650 - brm_534393 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 37 € |
| Maximum bid : | 50 € |
| End of the sale : | 20 May 2019 14:15:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: août - décembre
Date: 166
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,69 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré, un peu court sur les légendes. Usure régulière. Joli revers. La monnaie a été nettoyée anciennement et commence tout juste à se repatiner
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARM - [PARTH MAX].
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Parthicus Maximus”, (L’empereur Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste vainqueur des Arméniens grand Parthique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [TR PO]T XX I-MP IIII CO[S III]/ VIC PAR/ S|C.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à gauche, les ailes ouvertes, drapée, posant un bouclier inscrit en deux lignes sur un palmier.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum Imperator quartum Consul tertium// Victoria Parthica”, (Revêtu de la vingtième puissance tribunitienne et de la quatrième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois// la victoire parthique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Exemplaire provenant probablement d’une trouvaille ancienne.
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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