bpv_640350 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 222-235
Mint name / Town : Nisibe, Mésopotamie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 12,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré avec une faiblesse de frappe sur les légendes. Beau buste d’Alexandre Sévère. Buste de Tyché bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Alexandre Sévère, drapé sur l’épaule ( O*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI MAR AU S ALEXANDROS SE.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste tourelé, voilé et drapé de la Tyché de Nisibe à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant surmonté du signe astrologique du bélier courant à droite, tournant la tête à gauche ; une étoile à huit rais devant le visage, une autre derrière la tête.
Reverse legend : SEP KOLO - [NESIBI MHT].
Reverse translation : (Colonie sseptimia ville de Nisibe).
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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