brm_170488 - MARCUS AURELIUS Dupondius
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Dupondius
Date: 145
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très irrégulier. Usure importante, mais lisible et parfaitement identifiable. Beau portrait. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAES-AR AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle César à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS - I-I/ S|C.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité), debout à gauche, casquée et vêtue militairement, tenant le parazonium de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul iterum”, (Consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec cet exemplaire, nous sommes bien en présence d’un as.
Very light weight. With this example, we are indeed in the presence of an ace
Very light weight. With this example, we are indeed in the presence of an ace
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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