bpv_943078 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Tetrassaria
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 209-211
Mint name / Town : Tomis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,18 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, décentré sur la légende de revers. Très beau buste d’Alexandre Sévère. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR SEU - ALEXANDROS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Seueros Alexandros).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre).
Reverse
Reverse description : Némésis drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droiteet un sceptre de la main gauche ; une roue à ses pieds.
Reverse legend : [MHTRO. P]ON-TOU TOMEWS/ -|D, (Mhtropolewn Pontou Tomeos).
Reverse translation : (de la ville de Tomis du Pont).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Marque (delta) pour quatre dans le champ du revers. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans le Varbonov I, p. 423, n° 5325.
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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