brm_740066 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: fin
Date: 231
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,81 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, idéalement centré. Très joli revers, finement détaillé. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP SEV ALE-XAND AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Alexandre Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus” (L’empereur Sévère Alexandre Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P VIIII - COS III P P.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, nu, debout à gauche, le manteau sur les épaules, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate novum decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife, revêtu de la neuvième puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la troisième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
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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