brm_886312 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 195
Mint name / Town : Roma
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 18,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan court, centré. Buste agréable. Usure beaucoup plus marquée au revers. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse legend : L SEPT SEV PERT - AVG IMP VII.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite, avec pan de paludamentum sur l'épaule gauche (O*2).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus Imperator septimum" (Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax Auguste acclamé empereur sept fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DIVI M PII - F P M TR P III COS II P P/ S|C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout à gauche, le pied droit posé sur une proue de vaisseau, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Divi Marci Pii Filius Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas tertium Consul secundum Pater Patriae" (Fils du Divin Marc Pieux, Grand Pontife détenteur de la Puissance Tribunicienne pour la troisième fois Consul deux 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..
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