brm_278931 - MARCUS AURELIUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : As
Date: c. 145-160
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,05 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur une petit flan irrégulier, court sur les légendes. Beau portrait stylisé de Marc Aurèle César. Revers un peu brouillé. Patine vert clair légèrement granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE DÉGÉNÉRÉE.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Marc Aurèle césar à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE DÉGÉNÉRÉE.
Reverse description : Femme drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite tendue au-dessus d’un autel allumé et une palme de la main gauche.
Commentary
Imitation barbare. Représentation tout à fait inhabituelle. Au revers l’entité peu faire penser à Pietas (la Piété) avec la patère et l’autel ou à Salus. Mais la palme est plutôt liée à Hilaritas (la Joie). L’autel a la forme d’une tête radiée. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Frappé sur le limes ou dans le barbaricum.
Barbarian imitation. A highly unusual representation. On the reverse, the entity may be reminiscent of Pietas (Piety) with the patera and altar, or of Salus. But the palm is more closely related to Hilaritas (Joy). The altar has the shape of a radiate head. Appears to be completely new and unrecorded. Struck on the limes or in the barbaricum
Barbarian imitation. A highly unusual representation. On the reverse, the entity may be reminiscent of Pietas (Piety) with the patera and altar, or of Salus. But the palm is more closely related to Hilaritas (Joy). The altar has the shape of a radiate head. Appears to be completely new and unrecorded. Struck on the limes or in the barbaricum
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Caesar
Born on April 26, 121, Marc Aurèle lost his father at the age of 9. He is the grandson of Marcus Annius Verus, brother-in-law of Hadrian and related to Trajan, and the son of Domitia Lucilla, half-sister of Hadrian. He received a careful education with Herod Atticus and Fronton as teachers. In 135, he converted to stoicism, the source of his inspiration for writing the Pensées. After the death of Aelius, he is adopted by Antoninus, just like Lucius Verus, at the request of the dying Hadrian. After July 10, 138, he was engaged to Faustina, born in 128 or 132, whom he married in 145. Caesar from 139, wearing the consulate in 140, Marc Aurèle received tribunician power in 147 and succeeded Antoninus in 161.
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