brm_170313 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 171
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,69 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré sur un petit flan. Très beau portrait servi par une épaisse patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXV .
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum quintum “, L’empereur Marc Antoine Auguste revêtu de la vingt cinquième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS III.
Reverse description : Jupiter assis à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main foudre et un long sceptre renversé de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul tertium”, (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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