v36_0559 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 235
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,83 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 18e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Portrait magnifique et énigmatique. Revers de style fin. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant avec l’égide sur l’épaule (A*02).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus", (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - XIIII COS III P P.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, marchant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quartum decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la quatorzième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Portrait inhabituel avec le cou élancé. Rubans de type 3. Le buste est seulement drapé et une égide semble reposer sur le drapé à l’avant du buste. Cet variété ne semble pas avoir été signalée et est de la plus insigne rareté.
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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