167 (December)/168 (December), issued by Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
Artist:
Roman; minted in Rome
About this artwork
Obverse: Bust of Marcus Aurelius, right, draped at left shoulder; laureate and bearded Inscribed: M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX (M[arcus Aurelius] Antoninus was not only Aug[ustus] but also Arm[eniacus] Parth[icus] Max[imus]—the great victor of Armenia and Parthia.)
Reverse: Victory walks left, wreath in right, palm branch in left Inscribed: TR P XXII IMP IIII COS III
Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX
Rev: TRP XXII IMP IIII COS III
Dimensions
Diam. 2 cm; 7.26 g
Credit Line
Gift of William F. Dunham
Reference Number
1922.4298
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “New Coins in the Classical Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago vol. 16, no. 4 (September 1922) pp. 50-51.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition Schedule,” Art Institute of Chicago News and Events (September–October 2004), p. 6 (ill.).
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 28; 90–91, cat. 20E (ill.), fig. 20.1; 113.
Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 23 Aureus Portraying Marcus Aurelius: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
Rachel C. Sabino, “Cat. 23 Aureus Portraying Marcus Aurelius: Technical Report,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 58 Aureus Portraying Septimius Severus: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), para 3, fig. 58.3.
Elizabeth Hahn Benge, “From Aegina to Andronicus: A Survey of Coinage at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Historia mundi: Le medaglie raccontano la storia, l’arte, la cultura dell’uomo 5 (January, 2016), pp. 212, 213, fig. 14.
Art Institute of Chicago, Recent Acquisitions: Collection of Classical Coins, Summer 1922.
William F. Dunham (1857-1936), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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