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v26_0355 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Pentassaria

SEVERUS ALEXANDER  Pentassaria XF
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Pentassaria
Date: c. 230
Mint name / Town : Édesse, Mésopotamie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 15,51 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beaux portraits. Revers énigmatique avec une patine marron et sable
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Bustes affrontés d’Alexandre Sévère lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite et de Julia Mamée drapée à gauche.
Obverse legend : AUT K M A S ALEXANDROS SEB IOLA MAMEA S, (Autokrator Kaisoaros Markos Aurhlios Shuhros Alexandros Sebastos Ioulia Mamaea sebasth).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste Julia Mamée augusta).

Reverse


Reverse description : Tyché de la cité d’Édesse assise à gauche sur un rocher ; un petit dieu rivière nageant à ses pieds ; devant un autel allumé ; au-dessus, une statuette d’Aquarius ; quatre étoiles à huit branches dans le champ deux par deux de chaque côté.
Reverse legend : MHT KOL EDESSHNwN (Mhtropolis Kolonia Edesshnwn).

Commentary


Exemplaire présentant de grandes similitudes avec celui photographié dans le Greek Imperial Coins.

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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