brm_1029479 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 163
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Marc Aurèle. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP M ANTONINVS AVG .
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Marcus Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur Marc Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROV DEOR TRP XVII COS III.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum Tribunicia Potestate septimum decimum Consul tertium”, (La Providence divine, revêtu de la dix-septième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
Un seul ruban visible.
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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