Live auction - bpv_409590 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Assarion
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 320 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 November 2016 14:42:11 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 193-211
Mint name / Town : Dionysopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,01 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan mince, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Magnifique portrait de Septime Sévère. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine vert foncé. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Septime Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU K L SEP - SEUHROS, (Autokrator Kaisar Lukios Septimios Shuhros.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Lucius Septime Sévère).
Reverse
Reverse description : Grappe de raisin.
Reverse legend : DIONUSO-POLEITWN.
Reverse translation : (de Dionysopolis).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges visibles sous le paludamentum. Cet exemplaire répertorié (R10) dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov est décrit comme unique. Ce type de monnaies est parfois présenté comme un hemiassarion à cause de son poids.
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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