brm_949683 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 207
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 550 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Joli denier centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de l’empereur au droit et joli revers détaillé. Patine grise aux légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 XV COS III P P.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à droite, le pied posé sur un casque, écrivant sur un bouclier attaché au tronc d’un palmier.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quintum decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la quinzième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Si le revers est bien lié à une victoire, elle ne donna lieu à aucun titre pour les deux Augustes, Septime Sévère et Caracalla.
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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