Live auction - brm_403462 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Aureus
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| Estimate : | 7 500 € |
| Price : | 5 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 5 600 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 14:53:47 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Aureus
Date: 225
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait d’Alexandre Sévère de toute beauté, bien venu à la frappe, de style fin. Très joli revers, finement détaillé. Jolie patine avec reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR SEV - ALEXAND AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Alexander Augustus" (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRT-VS AVG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casquée, vêtue militairement, le sein droit nu, tenant une haste renversée de la main droite et s’appuyant de la main gauche sur un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti” (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Variante de revers avec le bouclier vu par devant.
Historical background
SEVERUS ALEXANDER
(05/10/221-03/22/235)
Augustus
Alexander Severus, whose real name is Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, was born in 208 in Caesarea in Phenicia. He is the son of Julia Mamée and Gessius Marcianus, a procurator of Syrian origin. He is also the grandson of Julia Maésa, sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, mother of Caracalla and Géta. He was adopted by his cousin Elagabalus on May 10, 221. When the latter was assassinated on March 13, 222, Alexander Severus was chosen to succeed him. He remains under the influence of his mother until the end of her reign. In 225, he married Orbiane who would soon be relegated. From 231, the borders of the Empire are threatened. It was first an expedition against the new Sassanid monarch Ardashir which ended with a truce in 233, the emperor having to go to the Rhine limes which the Germans had crossed. The emperor and his mother were assassinated in 235.
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