| Silver denarius of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
coined in 175 AD. On obverse side there is the emperor laureate head with
around the words: MANTONINVS AVG GERMSARM (Marcus Antoninus Augustus Germanicus Sarmaticus).
On reverse side a sitted figure symbolizing the Security holding a
scepter, with around the letters: SECVRITPVBTRPXXIX and below: IMPVIII/COSIII
(mint year 175 / Consul in 161) * Marcus
Annius Catilus Severus known then with the name of Marcus Aurelius was
born in Rome in 26th April of 121 AD. His reign was part of the golden age
of the Roman Empire, and was dedicated to the strengthening of defences
and borders. Marcus Aurelius reign began in 161, year of the death of
Antoninus Pius and continued till year180, this 19 years of reign was
passed in a continous series of military campaigns, also if the Emperor
nature was addressed toward humanities and philosophy. Two was the main
military campaignes, the one toward Parthians, on the oriental border of
Empire, and the other toward Germans that was arrived to invade the the
North-West region of Italy. The Oriental campaign ended with the defeath
of Parthians in 163 AD and the reconquest of all the Armenia
and the Mesopotamia. In 167 barbarian peoples of Quades and Marcomannes
began the invasion of the danubian border. The invasors broke throught the
danubian border and reched the actual Venetian region, putting over siege
the town of Aquileia. The Marcus Aurelius reply was immediate, and also if
his Legions was persecuted by the pestilence, He had success to block the
barbarians and then repel them other the Danube. The campaign ended in
175, but Emperor passed the remaining five years of his reign to fortify
and reinforce the Danubian region. Marcus Aureliu died in Vindobona
(Vienna) in 180 DC, leaving the Empire in the hands of his son Commodus,
that was his assistant since many years and Consul of Empire. |
