v38_0745 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 226
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,11 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan légèrement bombé, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de qualité exceptionnelle. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve son brillant de frappe et 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 Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - V - COS - II P P.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué marchant à droite, le manteau flottant, portant un trophée posé sur son épaule gauche et tenant une haste transversale de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quintum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la cinquième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3.
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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