Live auction - brm_417149 - JULIA DOMNA Denier
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| Estimate : | 650 € |
| Price : | 601 € |
| Maximum bid : | 601 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 March 2017 14:46:09 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 205
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 550 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Julia Domna. Joli revers de haut relief, finement détaillé. Patine grise avec reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IVLIA - AVGVSTA.
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 Augusta" (Julia augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MATER AVGG.
Reverse description : Magna Mater (Cybèle), tourelée, drapée, tenant un rameau de la main droite, assise sur un trône dans un char allant à gauche et conduit par quatre lions.
Reverse translation : “Mater Augustorum” (La Mère des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Ovide dans “Les fastes” demande à la Muse Erato : “Pourquoi les lions, ces bêtes farouches, courbant pour la première fois leurs têtes sous le joug, viennent-ils s’atteler au char de la déesse ?” Elle lui répond : “Ce fut Cybèle qui adoucit les mœurs féroces des hommes ; son char est un symbole de ce bienfait”.
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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