brm_889466 - MARCUS AURELIUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: c. 151-152
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 33,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais et centré. Joli portrait de l’empereur malgré l’usure. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII FIL.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Marc Aurèle à droite.
Obverse translation : “Aurelius Cæsar Augusti Pii Filius”, (Aurèle césar auguste fils d'Antonin le Pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TR POT VI - COS II/ S|C.
Reverse description : Genius (Génie) de l'armée ou Marc-Aurèle césar debout à gauche, lauré et vêtu militairement, tenant un vexillum (étendard) de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite, et sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Tribunicia Potestas sextum Consul iterum”, (Revêtu de la sixième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Variante de portrait au droit, type que l’on retrouve habituellement avec un buste drapé.
Heavy weights. Variant portrait on the right, type usually found with a draped bust
Heavy weights. Variant portrait on the right, type usually found with a draped bust
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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