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Type : Sesterce
Date: c. 161-180
Mint name / Town : Attalia, Pamphylia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Buste agréable. Patine foncée
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste tête nue, drapé et cuirassé de Marc Aurèle à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AURRHLIOS - KAISAR, (Aurhlios Kaisar)
Obverse translation : (Aurèle césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Zeus assis à gauche tenant un aigle et un sceptre.
Reverse legend : ATTALEWN
Reverse translation : (d’Attalia).
Historical background
MARCUS AURELIUS
(139-03/17/180)
Caesar
Born on April 26, 121, Marc Aurèle lost his father at the age of 9. He is the grandson of Marcus Annius Verus, brother-in-law of Hadrian and related to Trajan, and the son of Domitia Lucilla, half-sister of Hadrian. He received a careful education with Herod Atticus and Fronton as teachers. In 135, he converted to stoicism, the source of his inspiration for writing the Pensées. After the death of Aelius, he is adopted by Antoninus, just like Lucius Verus, at the request of the dying Hadrian. After July 10, 138, he was engaged to Faustina, born in 128 or 132, whom he married in 145. Caesar from 139, wearing the consulate in 140, Marc Aurèle received tribunician power in 147 and succeeded Antoninus in 161.
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