brm_345550 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 158-159
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 23,86 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Portrait de Marc Aurèle César inhabituel. Frappe molle au revers. Patine marron foncé superficielle granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAES-AR AVG PII F.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue, de Marc Aurèle césar, vu de trois quarts en avant (A°).
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT XIII - COS II/ 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 ; le pied gauche appuyé sur un casque.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestate tertium decimum Consul iterum”, (Revêtu de la treizième puissance tribunicienne, Consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Ptéryges larges. Buste particulier.
Large pteryges. Particular bust
Large pteryges. Particular bust
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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