v38_0770 - MAXIMINUS I As, (MB, Æ 28)
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : As, (MB, Æ 28)
Date: automne 236 - janvier 238
Date: 236-238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Emission: 4e-6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait. Frappe vigoureuse de style fin et de haut relief. Patine marron foncé légèrement piquée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Maximin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus”, (Maximin pieux auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVGVSTI/ -|-// SC.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) assise à gauche, posant le coude gauche sur son trône, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent enroulé autour d’un autel.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Portrait C (portrait triomphal). Frappé sur un flan de médaillon. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF reproduit dans le MIR. 27, pl. 9.
Historical background
MAXIMINUS I
(March 22, 235 – c. April 15, 238)
Maximin, a soldier, owes his career to his very large size. He is noticed by Septimius Severus who makes him a Praetorian. Proclaimed august after the assassination of Alexander Severus, Augustus History presents him as a bloodthirsty boor, sworn enemy of the Senate. In three years of reign, he will never set foot in Rome and remains on the Rhine-Danubian limes. He won a great victory over the Germans in 236, settled in Sirmium and won a victory over the Sarmatians. Bringing all his care to the soldiers, he neglects Rome and imposes heavily the cities. Of Thracian origin, he was the first Illyrian emperor. In 238, numerous revolts broke out in Rome and in Africa. The Gordians are proclaimed august in Africa in January or February, while in Rome, Balbin and Pupien, two senators, are responsible for eliminating Maximinus, finally assassinated with his son Maximus under the walls of Aquileia which they besieged.
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