v31_0322 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 194
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier et bien centré. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Frappe un peu faible au revers. Flan légèrement fendu à 11 heures au revers. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : L SEPT SEV PE-RT AVG IMP III.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus Imperator Tertium" (Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax auguste revêtu de la troisième acclamation impériale).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - I-I - COS II P P.
Reverse description : Jupiter à demi nu assis à gauche, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ" (Grand Pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Nous n’avons eu ce denier qu’une seule fois dans ROME VIII, 2000, n° 20, provenant d’une collection ancienne.
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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