brm_149304 - JULIA MAESA Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 218-219
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier. Très beau portrait. Frappe un peu faible au revers. Une fine patine avec des reflets dorés recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
Obverse
Obverse legend : IVLIA MAESA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé de Julia Maésa à droite avec les cheveux ramenés derrière la tête (L).
Obverse translation : “Iulia Mæsa Augusta”, (Julia Maésa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : I-V-NO.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuno”, (Junon).
Commentary
Poids léger. Portrait inhabituel de la grand-mère de l’empereur.
Historical background
JULIA MAESA
(+223 or 226)
Sister of Julia Domna, mother of Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, grandmother of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander - Augusta
Julia Maésa is the sister of Julia Domna, therefore the sister-in-law of Septimius Severus. She married Julius Avitus and had two daughters, Julia Soémias, mother of Elagabalus, and Julia Mamée, mother of Alexandre Sévère. She is about fifty years old in 217 at the death of her sister, who did not support the assassination of her son Caracalla. Immensely rich, she campaigned with the soldiers stationed in Emesa to have her eldest grandchild, Elagabalus, proclaimed emperor. In 222, it is still she who, in order to save the dynasty, will allow her daughter and Elagabal to be massacred in order to promote her second grandson, Alexander Severus, to the title of august. She died at the beginning of this principate, between 223 and 228, more probably in 226.
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