brm_864809 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 234
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 19,90 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli buste d’Alexandre Sévère. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXANDER 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 : P M TR P XIII COS III P P// S|C.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, marchant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate tertium decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la treizième puissance tribunicienne, 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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