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brm_551150 - MAXIMINUS I Sesterce

MAXIMINUS I Sesterce XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 130.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: automne 236 - avril 238
Date: 236-238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli revers, bien détaillé. Métal légèrement piqué sur le cou de Maximin. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Maximin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus", (Maximin pieux auguste germanique).

Reverse


Reverse legend : FIDES MILITVM/ S|C.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité), drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).

Commentary


Portrait C (triomphal). Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Ce sesterce fut fabriqué au cours des quatrième, cinquième et sixième émissions.

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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