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brm_311920 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce

SEVERUS ALEXANDER  Sesterce AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 223
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,63 g.
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Très jolie patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR SEV ALEXANDER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX TR P II COS P P// SC.
Reverse description : Securitas (La Sécurité) assise à gauche auprès d'un autel paré, tenant un sceptre de la main droite et soutenant sa tête avec sa main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).

Commentary


Poids très léger.
Very light weight

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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