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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 54 € |
| Maximum bid : | 60 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 15:05:00 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 174
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Denier frappé sur un flan centré. Des faiblesses et une usure régulière. Buste bien reconnaissable de Marc Aurèle au droit. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXVII.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antoninus Augustus Tribunicia Potestate vicesimum octavum”, (Marc Antonin auguste revêtu de la vingt-huitième puissance tribunitienne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMP VI - COS III.
Reverse description : Trophée au pied duquel se trouve un captif germain adossé à droite.
Reverse translation : “Imperator sextum Consul tertium”, (Revêtu de la sixième acclamation impériale consul pour la troisième fois).
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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