A rare find bust/ Marcus Aurelius pietas

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Marcus Aurelius Caesar,
139-161. Denarius (Silver, 3.39 g. 1),

142. AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS Bare head of Marcus to right. Rev. PIETAS AVG Priestly implements: knife, sprinkler, jug, lituus and simpulum. BMC 277. C. 451. Hill 469. RIC 424a. Bright and lustrous. Virtually as struck.

It is a scarcer type, as Caesar, under Antoninus Pius.

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i could not find one with draped bust are only a single head

 

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Very nice!!

I seem to have very few of Marcus Aurelius, except some worn sestertii

 

Thanks

 

Ric code was a gamble i cannot find any information of this type bust

 

i think realy new find/ this bust

most are young commodus

 

Wow! Gobsmacked! ro... SILVER???

Looks great! Nice capture...

 

thanks

 

That is unusual RO. Nice find. M. Aurelius coins use to be one of the most affordable rulers to collect nice coins of until the movie Gladiator came out. They seemed to go up faster than some others and nice coins became quite hard to find.

 

Draped bust right is 424b.

Here's the listing in RIC about the various bust types:

 

Yours with the draped bust right is Cohen 452:

 

thanks, i think the rarity bust draped is more scare almost not one to find

 

Yes, RIC lists it as "scarce" but the head right is "common."

 

I would say it's a common coin. Certainly one if the more affordable types for Marcus Aurelius I've seen lately. I am thinking about buying one too eventually.

The "rare" and "scarce" labels on some of those old catalogs are not exactly accurate. I have some "rare" coins that you can go online and easily find 5 or 6 on sale at any time. While not common, that's definitely not truly "rare"

 

Here's one of Marcus as Caesar, just before yours in the RIC catalog!


Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180
Roman AR denarius; 18.2 mm, 2.62 g
Rome, AD 143
Obv: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG P II F COS, Bare head, right
Rev: IVVENTAS, Juventas standing, facing, head left, dropping incense on candelabrum and holding patera
Refs: RIC 423a (Pius); BMCRE 270; Cohen 389; RCV 4785; UCR 571

 

Come with picture with your findings/ draped bust is rare in this type

 

True, but it gives an idea of RELATIVE scarcity, i.e. which one of the varieties may be harder to come by than the other. Ro said he found lots of bare head right ones online but he could only find a single example of the bare-headed, draped bust right variety and he bought it.

So, in this case, RIC's relative scarcity scale seems to hold up.

 

i could find only with head not draped bust typ

 

indeed thanks

 

i could in my finding only one on all the auctions with this bust type