brm_349300 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 194
Mint name / Town : Émèse
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 600 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,63 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAE L SEP SEV - PERT AVG COS II.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus Consul secundum", (Empereur César Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax Auguste Consul pour la deuxième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : BONA - SPES.
Reverse description : Spes (l'Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Bona Spes", (La bonne Espérance).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. 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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