bpv_666829 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 222-230
Mint name / Town : Dionysopolis, Mésie inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. Beau buste d’Alexandre Sévère. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts à droite (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT M A(UR) SEUH -.- ALEXANDR-OS., (Autokratoros Markos Aurhlios Seouhros Alexandros)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre).
Reverse
Reverse description : Génie ou Sérapis debout à droite, coiffé du calathos, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main gauche sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel allumé et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : DIONUSOP-OLEITWN/ -|D (Dionusopoleitwn)
Reverse translation : (de Dionysopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Mêmes coinde droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov (GIC. I/ 502).
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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