brm_335760 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 222
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine griseavec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP SEV ALEXAND AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVG.
Reverse description : Victoria (La Victoire) courant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Augusti" (La Victoire de l'empereur).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Importante trace de début de cassure de coin au revers partant de la légende.
Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Significant trace of the beginning of a die break on the reverse starting from the legend.
Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Significant trace of the beginning of a die break on the reverse starting from the legend.
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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