brm_990409 - MARCUS AURELIUS As
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Price : 200.00 €
Type : As
Date: 164-165
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS P M.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Pontifex Maximus” (Marc Antoine Auguste vainqueur des arméniens, grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR P XIX - IMP II COS III/ S|C.
Reverse description : Marc avançant à droite tenant une lance et un trophée.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate novum decimum Imperator iterum Consul tertium”, (Revêtu de la dix-neuvième puissance tribunitienne de la deuxième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Augustus
Caesar from 139, wearing the consulship for 140, Marc Aurèle receives tribunician power in 147 and succeeds Antonin in 161. His personal reign is marked by the Parthian war (162-165). After the death of Lucius Verus in 169, he had to face the Germanic invasions and the plague which ravaged the Empire. Marcus Aurelius associates his son Commodus with the Empire from 175 and dies of the plague in 180 in Vienna.
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