E-auction 647-657488 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 178
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 20,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Usure très importante et des concrétions. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [M AVREL ANTONI-NVS AVG TR P XXXII].
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate duotricesimum”, (Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste revêtu de la trente-deuxième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [IMP- VIIII COS III P P/ S|C].
Reverse description : Æquitas (l’Équité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
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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