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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 48 € |
| Maximum bid : | 52 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 December 2016 14:42:30 |
| bidders : | 9 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 176
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan à l’usure importante. Beau portrait mais défaut de métal. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS AVG - GERM SARM TR P XXX.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Germanicus Sarmaticus Tribunicia Potestate tricesimum”, (Marc Antonin auguste vainqueur germanique sarmatique revêtu de la tente puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP VIII COS III - CLEMENTIA AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Clementia (la Clémence) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Imperatum octavum consul tertium Clementia Augusti”, (Empereur pour la huitième fois, consul pour la troisième fois la Clémence de l’auguste).
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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