bpv_251318 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Assarion
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Price : 85.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 222-235
Mint name / Town : Aké-Ptolémais, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 6,17 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère. Joli revers. Patine verte et sable, légèrement granuleuse
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Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Tom Vossen
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP SEV AVR ALEXANDER AVG (SIC !).
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COLO PTOLE.
Reverse description : Cavalier au pas à droite, vêtu militairement, le manteau flottant au vent levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la main gauche ; caducée sous l’antérieur droit levé.
Reverse translation : (Colonie de Ptolemaïs).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. La légende du droit semble inversée ou modifiée.
Historical background
SEVERUS ALEXANDER
(05/10/221-03/22/235)
Augustus
Alexander Severus, whose real name is Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, was born in 208 in Caesarea in Phenicia. He is the son of Julia Mamée and Gessius Marcianus, a procurator of Syrian origin. He is also the grandson of Julia Maésa, sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, mother of Caracalla and Géta. He was adopted by his cousin Elagabalus on May 10, 221. When the latter was assassinated on March 13, 222, Alexander Severus was chosen to succeed him. He remains under the influence of his mother until the end of her reign. In 225, he married Orbiane who would soon be relegated. From 231, the borders of the Empire are threatened. It was first an expedition against the new Sassanid monarch Ardashir which ended with a truce in 233, the emperor having to go to the Rhine limes which the Germans had crossed. The emperor and his mother were assassinated in 235.
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