v29_0225 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 148-149
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Emission: 15e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, mais piqué et corrodé avec un manque de métal au droit. Usure importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle césar à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius Consul”, (Aurèle césar fils du pieux auguste consul).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT III - COS - II/ HO-NOS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Honos, (l’Honneur), drapé debout à droite, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Honos”, (L’Honneur).
Commentary
Revers tout à fait inhabituel. Semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Very unusual reverse. Seems rarer than general literature suggests
Very unusual reverse. Seems rarer than general literature suggests
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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