brm_459211 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 185.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 185.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 164
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 800 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,97 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Petit flan bien centré. Joli portrait. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG - ARMEN P M.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Armeniacus Pontifex Maximus, (Marc Antonin auguste arméniaque grand pontife).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR P XVIII - IMP II COS III.
Reverse description : Mars casqué, vêtu militairement debout à gauche, tenant une haste renversée de la main droite et appuyé de la main gauche sur son bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate duodevicesimum Imperator iterum Consul tertium”, (Revêtu de la dix-huitième puissance tribunitienne et de la deuxième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Lightweight
Lightweight
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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