bpv_156742 - MARCUS AURELIUS Didrachme
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Type : Didrachme
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 19,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,50 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale et éclaté. Usure régulière. Fine patine grise
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUTOK M ANTWNEINOS SEB (Autokratoros Markos Antwneinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur Marc Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Le Mont Argée avec des arbres surmonté par une étoile.
Reverse legend : UPATOS. G (Upatos G)
Reverse translation : (Troisième consulat).
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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