brm_349303 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 198
Mint name / Town : Laodicée
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Septime Sévère à la chevelure bouclée. Joli revers de frappe un peu molle. Patine grise avec des reflets mordorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : L SEPT SEV AVG IMP XI PART MAX.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Augustus Imperator unodecimum Parthicus Maximus" (Lucius Septime Sévère Auguste revêtu de la onzième acclamation impériale grand parthique).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COS - I-I - P - P.
Reverse description : Victoria (La Victoire) marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul iterum”, (Consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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