v32_0337 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce, (GB, Æ 29)
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 29)
Date: 226
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 22,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de joli style avec une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la balance. Belle patine verte
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME IV, n° 58
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR SEV - ALEXANDER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d'Alexandre Sévère à droite avec paludamentum, 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 : AEQVITAS AVGVSTI// S|C.
Reverse description : Aequitas (l'Équité) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æquitas Augusti”, (L'Équité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. C’est le seul exemplaire que nous ayons proposé à la vente en douze ans.
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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