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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 75 € |
| Maximum bid : | 85 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 15:04:06 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Drachme
Date: c. 167-169
Mint name / Town : Edessa, Mésopotamie
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 700 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et centré, de forme ovale. Usure importante et mais régulière. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Marc Aurèle à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AURHLIOS ANTWNINOS.
Reverse
Reverse description : Personnage féminin debout, la tête tournée vers la gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse legend : UPER NIKHS TWN KURIWN SE.
Commentary
Première fois que nous présentons ce rare type à la vente !.
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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