brm_590696 - JULIA MAESA Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 218-220
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 20,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier bien centré, frappe faible sur les légendes de droit et de revers. Beau buste de Julia Maesa. Belle patine verte naturelle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [IVLIA] MAESA - AVG[VSTA].
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Julia Maésa à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L).
Obverse translation : “Julia Mæsa Augusta”, (Julia Maesa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [PIET-AS AVG]// SC.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée debout à gauche tenant une boîte à parfums de la main gauche et versant de l’encens de la main droite au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustæ”, (La Piété de l’augusta).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
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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