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Live auction - brm_480593 - ANTONINUS PIUS and MARCUS AURELIUS CAESAR Sesterce

ANTONINUS PIUS and MARCUS AURELIUS CAESAR Sesterce AU/MS
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Estimate : 3 000 €
Price : 2 300 €
Maximum bid : 2 300 €
End of the sale : 05 June 2018 14:34:36
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Sesterce
Date: 141
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 35,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan très large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Magnifiques bustes d’Antonin le Pieux et de Marc Aurèle César. Très belle patine verte. Semble avoir été légèrement retouché dans la chevelure au niveau de la couronne de laurier. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P COS III.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Antonin le Pieux à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriæ Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium” (Antonin auguste, pieux, Père de la Patrie, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la troisième fois).

Reverse


Reverse legend : AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS/ S C.
Reverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Marc Aurèle César à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Reverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius Consul” (Aurèle césar, fils de pieux Auguste, consul).

Commentary


Exemplaire frappé sur un flan de médaillon ! Impressionnante émission dynastique. Buste de la plus grande rareté au droit pour Antonin le Pieux avec un début de pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche .

Historical background


ANTONINUS PIUS and MARCUS AURELIUS CAESAR

(140-161)

On Hadrian's recommendation, Antonin adopted Marc Aurèle and Lucius Vérus. On the coinage, Marcus Aurelius appeared in 139. He took his first consulship on January 1, 140 and his second consulship on January 1, 145. He married the daughter of Antoninus, Faustina young. The following year, at the birth of their first child, he received his first tribunician power. In 161, he succeeded his adoptive father.

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