bpv_411647 - MARCUS AURELIUS Triassaria
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Triassaria
Date: c. 150-200
Mint name / Town : Maeonia, Lydie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré. Belle tête massive d’Héraklès. Joli revers inhabituel bien venu à la frappe, faible sur la légende. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête nue barbue d’Héraklès à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse description : Omphale drapée marchant à droite, drapée, tenant la massue de la main droite et la léonté.
Reverse legend : EPI GA ROUFIOU MAIONWN, (Epi Gaiou Roufiou Maionwn)
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Gaius Rufus de Maeonia).
Commentary
Très belle tête nue d’Héraklès au droit et rare représentation d’Omphale au revers. Frappé au IIe siècle sous les Antonins.
Very fine bare head of Heracles on the obverse and rare representation of Omphale on the reverse. Struck in the 2nd century under the Antonines
Very fine bare head of Heracles on the obverse and rare representation of Omphale on the reverse. Struck in the 2nd century under the Antonines
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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