bpv_493013 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Octassaria
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Price : 195.00 €
Type : Octassaria
Date: c. 222-235
Mint name / Town : Antioche,Syrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 26,18 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et épais bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait particulier d’Alexandre Sévère. Très joli revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente CNG Eauction 216, 2009, n° 358
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI M AU SE - ALECANDROS S
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste)
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Reverse
Reverse legend : S - C.
Reverse description : Buste voilé, tourélé et drapé de Tyché à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, surmonté d’un bélier courant à droite, la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse legend : ANTIOCEWN - MHTROPOL - / D - E
Reverse translation : (d’Antioche métropole).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Le portrait de l’empereur fait penser aux émissions de Rome, mais la légende est bien en langue grecque.
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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