brm_335766 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 226
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 22,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Alexandre Sévère. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR SEV - ALEXANDER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré d'Alexandre Sévère à droite avec paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AEQVITAS AVGVSTI// S|C.
Reverse description : Aequitas (l'Équité) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æquitas Augusti”, (L'Équité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. C’est le quatrièm exemplaire que nous ayons proposé à la vente en vingt ans.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the fourth example that we have offered for sale in twenty years
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the fourth example that we have offered for sale in twenty years
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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