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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Dupondius
Date: 155-156
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,16 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. L’autel est stylisé au revers. Patine verte épaisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAES - ANTON AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Antoninus Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar Antonin auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT - X - COS II/ -|-// SC.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant la boîte à encens (acerra) de la main gauche et sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate decimum Consul iterum”, (Revêtu de la dixième puissance tribunitienne, Consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux. Seul le BMC signale un exemplaire provenant de la vente Münzhandlung Basel du 28 juin 1934, n° 1323. C’est la deuxième fois que nous proposons cet as.
Seems much rarer than general works suggest. Only the BMC reports a example from the Münzhandlung Basel sale of June 28, 1934, no. 1323. This is the second time we have offered this item.
Seems much rarer than general works suggest. Only the BMC reports a example from the Münzhandlung Basel sale of June 28, 1934, no. 1323. This is the second time we have offered this item.
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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