bpv_262638 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Hexassaria
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Hexassaria
Date: c. 200-210
Mint name / Town : Pautalia, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait de Septime Sévère. Joli revers. Patine noire
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Septime Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU.. K L. SEPTI - SHUHROS P, (Autokrator Kaisar Lukios Septimios Shuhros).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Lucius Septime Sévère auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dikaiosyne (Aequitas) (l’Équité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une balance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : OULPIAS PA-UTALIAS, (Oulpias Pautalia).
Reverse translation : (Ulpia Pautalia).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Intéressante représentation du revers des statues d’Hygiée et d’Asklépios qui se retrouvent sur le monnayage ce qui semble bien démontrer que les revers ne montrent pas des entités choisies au hasard, mais au contraire des figurations de statues conservées dans les temples.
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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