brm_300782 - MAXIMINUS I Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: début - été
Date: 236
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,48 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait magnifique de haut relief. Revers finement détaillé. Très jolie patine avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Maximin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2) ; portrait B.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximinus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGVSTI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix), drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, brandissant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et tenant un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Portrait B (militaire). Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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