brm_660355 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS As
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Type : As
Date: 196
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 9,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier bien centré. Belle tête de Septime Sévère. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : L SEPT SEV PERT - AVG IMP VII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus Imperator septimum" (Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax auguste revêtu de la septième acclamation impériale).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P IIII - [COS II P P]/ S|C.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un gouvernail posé sur un globe de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche ; à ses pieds, une roue.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quartum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ" (Grand pontife, revêtu de la quatrième puissance tribunicienne consul pour la deuxième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supooser les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous pésentons un exemplaire.
Historical background
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
(13/04/193-4/02/211)
Septimius Severus was born in 146 in Leptis Magna in Africa (Libya). After a brilliant military career under the reigns of Marc Aurèle and Commodus, he was consul suffect in 185. At the time of Pertinax's death, he was governor of Upper Pannonia. Acclaimed emperor on April 13, 193, he quickly eliminated Dide Julien, his compatriot (June 28), and associated Albin with power as Caesar before fighting Pescennius Niger in the East. In 195, he fictitiously entered the Antonine family by being adopted post-mortem. He defeats and executes Niger and leads a brilliant campaign in Arabia. In 197, he got rid of his last adversary, Albin, who proclaimed himself august. Severus prepares the establishment of his dynasty by giving the title of Augusta to Julia, his wife, in 194, of Caesar to Caracalla, in 196, then of Augustus in 198 when Geta, his second son, becomes Caesar. Sévère will spend fifteen years consolidating the borders of the Empire by winning numerous victories over the Parthians (197-198), then in Africa (207) and, finally in Brittany (208-211), where he died..
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