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| Estimate : | 320 € |
| Price : | 335 € |
| Maximum bid : | 520 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 January 2024 15:20:18 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 173
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 22,91 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli revers. Usure plus marquée au droit. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXVII.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum septimum”, (Marc Antonin Auguste revêtu de la vingt-septième Puissance Tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP VI - COS III/ S|C// RELIG AVG À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Mercure debout à gauche sur un piédestal, dans un temple à quatre colonnes à fronton cintré, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la gauche ; Les quatre colonnes sont formées par des Termes ; dans le tympan, on voit un serpent, un coq, un bélier, un caducée et une tortue.
Reverse translation : “Imperator sextum Consul tertium// Religio Augusti”, (Revêtu de la sixième acclamation impériale Consul pour la troisième fois// La haute conscience de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sesterce historiquement important qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Le seul exemplaire signalé provient de la collection Mazzini (autres coins).
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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