brm_349330 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 210
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Sévère. Joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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 XVIII - COS III P P.
Reverse description : Neptune debout à gauche, le pied sur un rocher, tenant un trident, le manteau sur le bras.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas octavum decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriae" (Grand Pontife détenteur de la Puissance tribunicienne pour la dix-huitième fois Consul trois fois Père de la Patrie).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le présentons à la vente. Variante avec le manteau sur le bras.
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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