v36_0553 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 226
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large, légèrement décentré, mais complet des deux cotés. Remarquable portrait de haut relief, servi par une jolie patine grise aux reflets dorés. Revers parfaitement venu à la frappe et ayant conservé de nombreux détails
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 : AEQVI-T-AS AVG.
Reverse description : Aequitas (l'Équité) debout de face, tête tournée à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Aequitas Augusti", (L'Équité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Sur cet exemplaire, l’empereur âgé maintenant de dix-huit ans présente un léger filet de barbe.
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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