v08_0230 - MARCUS AURELIUS Denier
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 192.09 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 192.09 €
Type : Denier
Date: 149-150
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 700 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,75 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique. Faiblesse de frappe sur les légendes. Flan légèrement irrégulier et éclaté / Frappe un peu molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CA-ESAR AVG PII FIL.
Obverse description : Tête nue à droite de Marc-Aurèle César, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O°2).
Obverse translation : (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT - IIII - C-OS II.
Reverse description : Minerve, casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite étendue une chouette et de la gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier où repose aussi sur son bras une haste longue.
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la quatrième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié avec cette variante de portrait. Manque aux principaux ouvrages de référence.
Very heavyweight. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted with this portrait variant. Missing from major reference works.
Very heavyweight. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted with this portrait variant. Missing from major reference works.
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Caesar
Born on April 26, 121, Marc Aurèle lost his father at the age of 9. He is the grandson of Marcus Annius Verus, brother-in-law of Hadrian and related to Trajan, and the son of Domitia Lucilla, half-sister of Hadrian. He received a careful education with Herod Atticus and Fronton as teachers. In 135, he converted to stoicism, the source of his inspiration for writing the Pensées. After the death of Aelius, he is adopted by Antoninus, just like Lucius Verus, at the request of the dying Hadrian. After July 10, 138, he was engaged to Faustina, born in 128 or 132, whom he married in 145. Caesar from 139, wearing the consulate in 140, Marc Aurèle received tribunician power in 147 and succeeded Antoninus in 161.
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