bpv_912575 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER and JULIA MAESA Pentassaria

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Type : Pentassaria

Date: c. 222-223

Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure

Metal : copper

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 13,81 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Flan large, centré des deux côtés, fissuré à 7h. Jolis bustes. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine marron-vert

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - Cop.- - GIC.- - AMNG. 1/945 - SNG/H.- - Varbonov1619 - ACBP.-

Obverse

Obverse description : Bustes affrontés d’Alexandre Sévère et de Julia Maésa ; Alexandre Sévère est lauré et Julia Maésa est diadémée et drapée à gauche, vue de trois quarts en avant.

Obverse legend : AUT K M AUP SEUH ALEXANDROS IOULIA MAISA.

Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Septime Alexandre et Julia Maésa).

Reverse

Reverse description : Déméter (Cérès) drapée debout à gauche, tenant deux épis de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.

Reverse legend : UP FIR FILOPAPPOU MARKIANOPOLIT|WN|- -|E, (Upateon Ioliou Seleukou Markianopolitwn).

Reverse translation : (Hypateon Phir Philopappos de Marcianopolis).

Historical background

SEVERUS ALEXANDER and JULIA MAESA

(222-226)

Julia Maésa is the sister of Julia Domna, therefore the sister-in-law of Septimius Severus. She married Julius Avitus and had two daughters, Julia Soémias, mother of Elagabalus and Julia Mamée, mother of Alexandre Sévère. She was about fifty years old in 217 when her sister died, who could not stand the assassination of her son Caracalla. Immensely rich, she will campaign with the soldiers stationed in Emesa to have the eldest of her grandchildren, Elagabalus, proclaimed emperor. In 222, it is still her, in order to save the dynasty, who will let her daughter and Elagabal be massacred in order to promote her second grandson Alexander Severus to the title of august. She died at the beginning of this principate, between 223 and 228, more probably in 226.