brm_304834 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 223
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan épais, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Revers de toute beauté. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origin
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDE-NTIA AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant une baguette de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, un globe.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Augusti", (La Providence de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3. Pour le règne d’Alexandre Sévère, le classement repose sur le travail de Jérôme Mairat dans ROME IV. Il a procédé au reclassement des émissions et des officines de l’atelier de Rome en s’appuyant sur la théorie des cycles.
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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