brm_1101520 - MARCUS AURELIUS Dupondius
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Type : Dupondius
Date: 178
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 11,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais monnaie bien identifiable. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [M AVREL A]NTONINVS AVG GERM SARM TR P XXXI.
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Germanicus Sarmaticus Tribunicia Potestate untricesimum”, (Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste germain sarmate revêtu de la trente-deuxième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP VIIII - COS III P P/ S|C.
Reverse description : Foudre ailé.
Reverse translation : “Imperator nonum consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Revêtu de la neuvième acclamation impériale 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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