brm_231714 - JULIA DOMNA Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 216
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,82 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier et légèrement échancré à 6 heures au revers. Portrait de qualité exceptionnelle. Joli revers avec une usure superficielle. Très jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve au droit une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IVLIA PIA - FELIX AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Julia Domna à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, la chevelure en tresses, ramenées derrière la tête (L).
Obverse translation : “Iulia Pia Felix Augusta”, (Julie pieuse heureuse augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENVS GENETRIX.
Reverse description : Vénus assise à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et tendant la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Venus Genetrix”, (Vénus génitrice).
Commentary
Poids léger. Portrait expressif exceptionnel.
Historical background
JULIA DOMNA
(+217)
Augusta
Julia Domna is from Emesa in Syria and daughter of the High Priest of Baal of Emesa. Septimius Severus married her around 180. She gave him two sons, Caracalla, born in Lyon in 188, and Géta, born in 189. She was proclaimed Augusta in 194, accompanied the Emperor on his travels and therefore received the title of " Mother of the camps". During the Brittany expedition, she was regent in Rome. After the death of Septimius Severus, she received new honors, Mother of the Senate and Mother of the Country, as well as the titles of Pia Felix (pious and happy). In 212, Geta was assassinated by his brother in the arms of Domna. During Caracalla's Germanic and Parthian expeditions, Domna remained in Rome. After the death of her son, she is exiled by Macrinus and dies soon after..
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