v08_0259 - COMMODUS Tridrachme

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot

Type : Tridrachme

Date: 175

Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce

Metal : silver

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 10,33 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait. Faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au droit

Catalogue references :

BMC.20/192-344 - Syd.91/363

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue de Commode à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).

Obverse legend : KOMMODW KAIS SEB UIw.

Obverse translation : (Commode César auguste).

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur une base ou une massue, les ailes déployées, la tête à droite.

Reverse legend : GERMAN S-ARMAT.

Reverse translation : (Germanique et sarmatique).

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.

COMMODUS Dupondius VF

75.00 €

Full data

COMMODUS Dupondius VF

COMMODUS Dupondius XF

v08_0259 - COMMODUS Tridrachme

Obverse

Reverse

Historical background

COMMODUS

(166-31/12/192)

Caesar

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