v36_0488 - MARCUS AURELIUS Quadrans des mines, (PB, Æ 17)
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 017.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 017.00 €
Type : Quadrans des mines, (PB, Æ 17)
Date: 161-180
Mint name / Town : Dalmatie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 1,97 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan mince, légèrement décentré au revers. Usure très importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste féminin drapé à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : METAL/ AVRELIA/NIS.
Reverse description : Légende en trois lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Metallis Aurelianis", (Monnaie des mines d’Aurélien”).
Commentary
Ces monnaies sont en fait beaucoup plus rares que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages généraux.
These coins are in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
These coins are in fact much rarer than general works suggest.
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
cgbfr.com numismatists
