v27_0604 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 231
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,92 g.
Officine: 2e
Emission: 14e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire de très grande qualité dans la frappe. Joli portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Exemplaire ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXAN-DER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P - X - COS III P P.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, nu, debout à gauche, le manteau sur les épaules, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate decimum Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la dixième puissance tribunicienne, consul pour la troisième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. La quatorzième émission de l’atelier de Rome est marquée par l’introduction d’une nouvelle titulature au droit avec une césure ALEXAN-DER qui ne sera pas reprise lors de l’émission suivante.
Light weight. The fourteenth issue of the Rome mint is marked by the introduction of a new title on the right with a caesura ALEXAN-DER which will not be repeated in the following issue
Light weight. The fourteenth issue of the Rome mint is marked by the introduction of a new title on the right with a caesura ALEXAN-DER which will not be repeated in the following issue
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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