v21_2677 - COMMODUS Moyen bronze, dupondius ou as, (MB, Æ 25)
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Moyen bronze, dupondius ou as, (MB, Æ 25)
Date: 175-176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,14 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 30e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait juvénile. Patine marron foncé. Frappe faible
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : COMMODO CAES AVG - FIL GERM SARM.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Commode à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Commodo Cæsari Augusto Filii Germanico Sarmatico”, (À Commode César fils d’auguste germanique sarmatique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIET-AS AVG.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : couteau, aspersoir, vase (capis), lituus et simpulum.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (la Piété de l’auguste).
Commentary
Ce moyen bronze est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent penser les ouvrages généraux.
This medium bronze is in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
This medium bronze is in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
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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