brm_280843 - COMMODUS Dupondius
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Dupondius
Date: 175
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Superbe portrait juvénile de Commode. Malgré une petite faiblesse de frappe, le revers reste dans un état hors du commun, de style très fin et servi par une extraordinaire patine vert foncé
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Obverse
Obverse legend : COMMODO CAES AVG FIL GERM SARM.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue de Commode à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse translation : "Commodo Cæsari Augusto Filio Germanico Sarmatico" (À Commode césar, fils de Marc-Aurèle germanique et sarmatique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES - PVBLICA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Spes (l'Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : (L'Espérance publique).
Commentary
Légende de droit au datif.
Legend of law in the dative case
Legend of law in the dative case
Historical background
COMMODUS
(166-31/12/192)
Caesar
Commodus was born in the purple on August 31, 161. Son of Marcus Aurelius and young Faustina, his twin brother died very early, in 165 or 166. He received the title of Caesar on this date but he was not really associated with power. only at the time of the revolt of Avidius Cassius in 175, after the death of Faustina Young in Cappadocia. For the first time since Nerva, the Emperor does not choose his successor by adoption, but raises his own offspring to august. Commodus, associated with the Empire from 176-177, will succeed his father in 180.
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