brm_873955 - MAXIMINUS I Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 236
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,03 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste de Maximin Ier.
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 triomphal (C).
Obverse translation : “Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus”, (Maximin pieux auguste germanique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P II COS P P.
Reverse description : Maximin Ier Thrace, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne de la main droite et une javeline de la main gauche ; derrière, une enseigne.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
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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