bpv_220970 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Pentassaria
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 115.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Pentassaria
Date: c. 222-223
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,96 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale, un peu court au droit sur la légende. Beaux portraits. Revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du catalogue Gilles Blançon 41, n° 474 (150€)
Obverse
Obverse description : Bustes affrontés d’Alexandre Sévère lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière et de Julia Maesa drapée à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR SEUH ALEXANDROS IOLIA MAISA, (Autokrator Kaisoar Markos Aurhlios Shuhros Alexandros Ioulia Maisa).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre Julia Maesa).
Reverse
Reverse description : Homonoia (la Concorde) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP TIB IOUL FESTOU MARKIANOPOLITW//N/ E|-, (Upateon Tiberios Ioliou Festou Markianopolitwn).
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Tiberius Julius Festus de Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Pour Alexandre Sévère, nous avons trois magistrats qui se succèdent, d’abord l’Hegemon Marcus Terebentinus, puis l’Upateon Tiberius Julius Festus, puis enfin Philoppapus qui semble beaucoup plus rare dans un laps de temps relativement court entre 222 et 226, voire 228.
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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