brm_1020038 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 01-04/166
Date: 166
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine grise, tachée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG - ARMENIACVS.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus” (Marc Antonin auguste, arméniaque).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT AVG T-R P XX - COS III.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) volant à gauche, tenant un diadème des deux mains.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum Consul tertium” (La Victoire de l’auguste, revêtu de la vingtième puissance tribunicienne, 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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