brm_1139759 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 170
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait de Marc Aurèle. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIIII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate tertium vicesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-troisième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS - III.
Reverse description : Minerve debout à droite tenant une lance et un bouclier.
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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