brm_616140 - DIDIUS JULIANUS Sesterce

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Price : 480.00 €

Type : Sesterce

Date: 193

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Diameter : 26,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 15,69 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie idéalement centrée. Légende parfaitement lisible au droit. Joli portrait. Patine verte

Catalogue references :

C.12 - RIC.16 - BMC/RE.28 - RCV.6076 (400$)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP CAES M DID SE-VER IVLIAN AVG.

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Dide Julien à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Didius Severus Julianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Dide Julien auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : P M TR P COS/ S|C.

Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).

Commentary

Poids léger.

Historical background

DIDIUS JULIANUS

(28/03-2/06/193)

After Pertinax's death, the Praetorians auction off the Empire. It is Dide Julien, senator and jurist, who wins by offering 25,000 sesterces per soldier. A part of the people revolted by this method appeals to the armies to get rid of the new tyrant. Pescennius Niger, Albin and Septimius Severus respond to Rome's expectations. Then broke out the second civil war, after that of 68-69. Abandoned by all at the approach of the troops of Septimius Severus, the quickest to reach Rome, Dide Julien was beheaded on June 2 and his "damnatio memorial" pronounced.