Live auction - brm_969603 - PESCENNIUS NIGER Denier
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| Starting price : | 680 € |
| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 680 € |
| Maximum bid : | 680 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 March 2025 14:48:48 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Denier
Date: 193
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 750 ‰
Diameter : 16,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,32 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Joli portrait. Usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES C PESCE NIGER IVSTI A.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Pescennius Niger à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Caius Pescennius Niger Iustus”, (L’empereur césar Caius Pescennius Niger juste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONET-AE AVG.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Monetæ Augusti” (À la Monnaie de l’auguste).
Historical background
PESCENNIUS NIGER
(04/193-10/195)
C. Pescennius Niger was born around 135. Consul suffect in 190, he became governor of Syria the following year. After the death of Pertinax and in front of the negligence of Dide Julien, he is proclaimed august in Antioch with the support of all the East and of nine legions. At the same time, Septimius Severus was proclaimed in Carnuntum. Sévère is the fastest and takes Rome, then marches against Niger. The latter was beaten at Cyzicus in January and then at Nicaea in April 194. Definitively crushed at the battle of Issus (September 194), he fled from Antioch, but was captured and then executed with his family and many supporters.
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