v26_0351 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 31)
Date: 230
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,17 g.
Officine: 2e
Emission: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier. Beau portrait, légèrement tréflé à la base du cou. Joli revers. Patine vert olive foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP SEV ALE-XANDER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus”, (L’empereur Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P V-IIII COS III P P// S|C.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout à droite, la tête tournée à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe dans la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate nonum Consul tertium Pater Patriae”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la neuvième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
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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