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bpv_599960 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien AU
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Price : 400.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 209-212
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste ainsi qu’un agréable revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Prieur 1534 A (2 ex.)
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente CNG, Auction 144, lot n° 210

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Septime Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI - SHUHROS SE.
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Septime Sévère auguste).

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur une massue tournée à gauche, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne dans son bec ; entre les pattes de l'aigle, un murex.
Reverse legend : DHMAR-C EX. UPATOS TO. G..
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la troisième fois).

Historical background


SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS

(13/04/193-4/02/211)

Tyre, according to tradition, seems to have been founded by settlers from Sidon, its great rival. Tyrian settlers in turn founded Carthage in 814 BC. Tire was one of the main ports of Phenicia and one of the most important commercial places in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tire refused to submit to Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The siege of the city lasted seven months from January to August under very difficult conditions. Alexander was ruthless and had the population massacred or enslaved. Tire did not disappear, was rebuilt. After the death of Alexander, it often changed masters: Perdiccas in 321 AC., Ptolemy the following year, then it was the turn of Antigone le Borgne in 314 before returning to Ptolemy's hands two years later. In 294 BC, Tire entered Seleucid orbit. After 274 BC, a new era seems to begin for Tyr. The city will be autonomous after 126 before J. - C. and will know a new political and economic rise without forgetting monetary which will continue under the Roman domination.

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