brm_229587 - MAXIMINUS I Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: début-été
Date: 236
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, irrégulier et épais, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Légère usure au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Maximin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2) ; portrait B.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Maximinus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Maximin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P II - COS P P.
Reverse description : Maximin lauré, en habit militaire, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une haste de la main gauche et posant sa main droite sur une enseigne militaire à gauche ; à droite, une autre enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pterygia under the paludamentum
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pterygia under the paludamentum
Historical background
MAXIMINUS I
(March 22, 235 – c. April 15, 238)
Maximin, a soldier, owes his career to his very large size. He is noticed by Septimius Severus who makes him a Praetorian. Proclaimed august after the assassination of Alexander Severus, Augustus History presents him as a bloodthirsty boor, sworn enemy of the Senate. In three years of reign, he will never set foot in Rome and remains on the Rhine-Danubian limes. He won a great victory over the Germans in 236, settled in Sirmium and won a victory over the Sarmatians. Bringing all his care to the soldiers, he neglects Rome and imposes heavily the cities. Of Thracian origin, he was the first Illyrian emperor. In 238, numerous revolts broke out in Rome and in Africa. The Gordians are proclaimed august in Africa in January or February, while in Rome, Balbin and Pupien, two senators, are responsible for eliminating Maximinus, finally assassinated with his son Maximus under the walls of Aquileia which they besieged.
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