v61_0187 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
MONNAIES 61 (2014)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce
Date: 231
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,70 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 13e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXAN-DER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, avec pan de paludamentum sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus".
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P X - COS III P P// S|C.
Reverse description : Annona (L'Annone) debout de face regardant à gauche, tenant deux épis de la main droite et une ancre de la gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, un modius rempli d'épis.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la dixième puissance tribunitienne et du troisième consulat, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids excessivement léger. Rubans de type 1. Pan de paludamentum visible sur l’épaule et sur le cou.
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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