brm_335747 - 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: 232
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait juvénile d’Alexandre Sévère. Revers inhabituel. Patine grise superficielle avec des reflets dorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Lanz en 2010 et de la collection du Professeur Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Alexandre Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus", (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [MARS] - VLTOR.
Reverse description : Mars casqué et vêtu militairement debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une haste transversla de la main gauche et un bouclier de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Mars Ultor”, (Mars vengeur).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Imitation barbare. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Sur ce denier, l’empereur a les traits plutôt de son successeur, Maximin Ier. Le revers est directement copié sur le type (RIC. 246).
Very light weight. Barbarian imitation. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. On this coin, the emperor has the features of his successor, Maximin I. The reverse is directly copied from the type (RIC. 246)
Very light weight. Barbarian imitation. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. On this coin, the emperor has the features of his successor, Maximin I. The reverse is directly copied from the type (RIC. 246)
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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