brm_408849 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 232
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,39 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine vert noir marbrée de rouge. Les champs ont été légèrement grattés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXAN-DER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus", (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant deux épis dans la main droite et une ancre dans le bras gauche ; à ses pieds, un vase remplis d'épis.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Augusti" (La Providence de l'auguste).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, ce n’est pas un modius, mais un vase qui semble poser aux pieds de Providentia. Cette variété ne semble pas avoir été signalée.
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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