brm_349323 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 208
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 550 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête de Septime Sévère. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : SEVERVS - PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Severus Pius Augustus”, (Sévère pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P XVI - COS III P P.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate sextum decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife détenteur de la puissance tribunitienne pour la seizième fois, consul pour la troisième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Pour ce type de revers, il existe deux variétés avec et sans autel.
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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