brm_942323 - COMMODUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 181
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,19 g.
Rarity : R2
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Sesterce frappé sur un flan centré, court sur les légendes. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : M COMMODVS [ANTONINVS AVG].
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Commode à droite, drapé sur l’épaule gauche.
Obverse translation : “Marcus Commodus Antoninus Augustus” (Marc Commode Antonin Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [IVPPITER CONSERVATOR TR P VI IMP IIII // COS III P P/ S|C].
Reverse description : Jupiter nu, le manteau sur l'épaule droite, tenant un foudre ailé de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, Commode debout à gauche, vêtu de la toge.
Reverse translation : “Iuppiter Conservator Tribunicia Potestate Sextum Imperator Quartum //Consul tertium Pater Patriae” (A Jupiter Conservator, revêtu de la sixième puissance tribunicienne, quatrième acclamation impériale, consul pour la troisième fois, Père de la Patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Lightweight
Lightweight
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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