bpv_278940 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Assarion
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: 223-226
Mint name / Town : Nicomédie, Bithynie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli représentation du revers. Belle patine vert clair, légèrement granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste laure, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : M AUR SEUH ALECANDROS AUG (Markos Aurhlios Seuhros Alecandros augustos).
Obverse translation : (Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : La Tyché de Nicomédie, à demi nue debout à droite sur une proue de navire, regardant en arrière.
Reverse legend : NIKO(MH)/-DEWN DIS NEW (Nikomhdewn Dis Neokorwn).
Reverse translation : (Nicomédie deux fois décorée).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Le revers fait référence à la deuxième néocorie. La cité fut rétrogradée sous Alexandre Sévère, repassant de trois à deux.
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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