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| End of the sale : | 09 April 2024 15:21:25 |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 189
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 22,94 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait de l’empereur malgré l’usure. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M COMMODVS ANT - P FELIX AVG BRIT.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Commode à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Commodus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus Britannicus”, (Marc Commode Antonin pieux heureux auguste vainqueur des Bretons).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IAE. FE-LICI.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, ailée, debout à gauche, tenant des deux mains un diadème ouvert au dessus de deux boucliers inscrits S C ; au dessous, une tablette inscrite COS V P P.
Reverse translation : “Victoriae Felicitas Consul quintum Pater Patriæ”, (A l’Heureuse Victoire, consul pour la cinquième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Ce type semble en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
This type actually seems much rarer than general literature suggests.
This type actually seems much rarer than general literature suggests.
Historical background
COMMODUS
(166-31/12/192)
Augustus
Commodus succeeded his father Marc Aurèle, who died in Vienna on March 17, 180. He hastened to conclude a truce with the Germanic tribes and then abandoned public life. The Empire was successively governed by the prefects of the Praetorium, Perennis from 182 to 185, Cléandre from 185 to 190, who were both assassinated. Commodus suffocated on the night of December 31, 192.
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