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Live auction - brm_503493 - ORBIANA Denier

ORBIANA Denier AU
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Estimate : 720 €
Price : 420 €
Maximum bid : 420 €
End of the sale : 04 December 2018 14:28:47
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Denier
Date: 225
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et très irrégulier, bien centré avec le grènetis complet au revers. Très beau buste d’Orbiane au droit. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés et bleutés irisés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : SALL BARBIA - ORBIANA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d’Orbiane à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L4).
Obverse translation : “Sallustia Barbia Orbiana Augusta”, (Sallustia Barbia Orbiane Augusta).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONCORDI-A - AVGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) assise à gauche sur un siège à dossier, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des augustes).

Commentary


Poids léger. Au droit, nous avons les tria nomina de l’augusta, Sallustia Barbia Orbiana, qui était d’origine patricienne, fille de Seius Sallustius. Le buste présente une chevelure crantée, surmonté du stephané.

Historical background


ORBIANA

(225)

Wife of Severus Alexander

Little information is available on Empress Orbiane. She married Alexander Severus in 225 but, having displeased the august's mother, she would eventually be banished to Africa. It is interesting to note the doubling of the G of CONCORDIA AVGG on certain reverse legends. Such a doubling would seem to indicate that Orbiane received important powers, likely to justify the jealousy of Julia Mamée.

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