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brm_335903 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce

SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 232
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,90 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère. Revers de haut relief et de style fin. Très jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
C.169  - RIC.635 d - BMC/RE.847  - HCC.162  - RCV.7979 (425$) - MRK.62 /97-1
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Alexander Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Alexandre pieux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MARS - VLTOR/ S|C.
Reverse description : Mars casqué et vêtu militairement marchant à droite, le manteau flottant au vent, tenant une haste de la main droite et un bouclier de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Ultor”, (Mars le Vengeur).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.

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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