v38_0737 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 222
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,80 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve son brillant de frappe au revers
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 Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservateur”, (À Jupiter conservateur).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Le portrait sur cet exemplaire n’est pas du tout ressemblant et fait penser à certains bustes du début du règne d’Élagabal. Légende de revers au datif.
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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