E-auction 491-401254 - brm_304795 - JULIA MAESA Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 195 € |
| Price : | 87 € |
| Maximum bid : | 110 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 September 2022 14:09:00 |
| bidders : | 11 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 222
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré. Joli portrait à l’usure importante. Frappe brouillée au revers Patine marron foncé granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME I, n° 267
Obverse
Obverse legend : IVLIA MAESA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Julia Maésa à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Iulia Mæsa Augusta”, (Julia Maesa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAECVLI FELICITAS/ -|*/ S|C// -.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite et sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Sæculi Felicitas”, (La Félicité du siècle).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Portrait vieilli de l’impératrice. Avec l’étoile, ce type de bronze est frappé après l’arrivée de la Pierre noire à Rome. Ce type existe avec l’étoile à gauche ou à droite, mais aussi avec la titulature longue. Type sans stéphané au droit.
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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