brm_1023315 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 223
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,56 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale présentant un magnifique revers de style fin. Patine grise de collection ancienne
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP 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 Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBER-TA-S AVG/ *|-// -.
Reverse description : Libertas (la Liberté) debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite un bonnet (pileus) et un long sceptre vertical de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Libertas Augusti" (La Liberté de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire précoce, le portrait d’Alexandre Sévère fait encore penser à celui d’Élagabal. Au revers, nous avons encore l’étoile, rencontrée sur le monnayage de son prédécesseur.
On this early example, the portrait of Alexander Severus is still reminiscent of that of Elagabalus. On the reverse, we still have the star, found on the coinage of its predecessor
On this early example, the portrait of Alexander Severus is still reminiscent of that of Elagabalus. On the reverse, we still have the star, found on the coinage of its predecessor
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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