brm_348362 - MAXIMINUS I Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: automne 236 - janvier 238
Date: 236-238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,60 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés, un peu court sur les légendes. Beau portrait de Maximin Ier. Revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Elsen du 16 septembre 2003, n° 496 et de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
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
Poids très léger. Portrait C (portrait triomphal). Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles 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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