brm_846725 - MAXIMINUS I Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: automne 236 - janvier 238
Date: 236-238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,79 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli buste de Maximin Ier. Revers agréable. Patine grise
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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) ; portrait C.
Obverse translation : “Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus”, (Maximin pieux auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDE-NTIA AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une baguette de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à droite, un globe.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l’auguste).
Commentary
Existe aussi en aurei et sesterces. Mais il est pratiquement impossible de distinguer les exemplaires des quatrième, cinquième et sixième émissions.
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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