bpv_664265 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Diassaria
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Type : Diassaria
Date: c. 198-201
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 8,17 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Septime Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI L [SEP] -SEUHROS PER, (Autokrator Lusios Septimos Seuhros Pertinac)
Obverse translation : (Imperator Lucius Septimius Sévère Pertinax).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tyché (Fortuna) coiffée du calathos, drapée debput à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP OUINI TERTUL-LOU NIKOPOLITWN// EP ISTR
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Ovinius Tertullus de Nicopolis// proche de l’Istros).
Commentary
Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les différents ouvrages. Il se pourrait que nous soyons en face d’un inédit de légende de revers pour le magistrat Gaius Ovinius Tertullus qui fut gouverneur de Moésie-Inférieure entre 198 et 201.
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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