bpv_1073165 - MARCUS AURELIUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 147-161
Mint name / Town : Philippopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 9,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Métal piqué. Joli portrait de Marc Aurèle. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite (O°).
Obverse legend : M AURHLIOS OUHROS KAISAR
Reverse
Reverse description : Apollon debout à gauche tenant une branche de la main droite.
Reverse legend : FILIPPOPOLEITWN
Reverse translation : (de Philippopolis).
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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