v21_2763 - JULIA DOMNA Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 198
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Laodicée, (Laodicea ad Mare)
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale. Magnifique portrait. Joli revers. Patine de collection avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IVLIA. AVGVSTA.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Julia Domna à droite, la chevelure en tresses ramenées derrière la tête (L).
Obverse translation : "Iulia Augusta", (Julia Augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETI-TIA.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un gouvernail de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Lætitia", (La Joie).
Commentary
Portrait de style oriental. Pour ce type de revers, le denier a aussi été frappé à Rome.
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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