bpv_310620 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Pentassaria
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Pentassaria
Date: c. 222-235
Mint name / Town : Byzance, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Grand buste de d’Alexandre Sévère. Revers inhabituel. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : M AUR SEUH ALEZANDROS A(UG), (Markos Aurhlios Seuhros Alexandros Augustos).
Obverse translation : (Marc Aurèle Sévère ALexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Deux paniers en osier coniques ; au milieu un panier rempli d’épis et de pavots.
Reverse legend : EPI M AUR SWTW(HR)WICOU BUZAN//TIWN.
Reverse translation : (Du magistrat Marc Aurèle Sotérichès de Byzance).
Commentary
Exemplaire sur un flan de médaillon. Un seul ruban visible. Ptéryges larges 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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