brm_735587 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
60.00 €(Approx. 61.80$ | 51.00£)
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Denier
Date: 194
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 650 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,29 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la Collection Philippe Marinèche
Obverse
Obverse legend : L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP IIII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus Imperator quartum", (Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax auguste revêtu de la quatrième acclamation impériale).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P II - COS II P P.
Reverse description : Minerve debout à gauche, les jambes serrées, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un bouclier de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ", (Grand Pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne pour la deuxième fois consul pour la deuxième fois Père de la Patrie).
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..
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
cgbfr.com numismatists
