brm_306699 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 480.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 480.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 232
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,89 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés, de qualité exceptionnelle. Grand portrait de toute beauté. Joli revers de style fin et de haut relief servi par une magnifique patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXAN-DER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d'Alexandre Sévère à droite drapé sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA AVG// S|C.
Reverse description : Providentia/Annona (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant deux épis de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un modius remplis d'épis.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l'empereur).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 1. Grand pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche, visible aussi derrière le cou. Césure de légende de droit inhabituelle.
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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