Live auction - brm_1059801 - PESCENNIUS NIGER Denier
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 210 € |
| Maximum bid : | 220 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 October 2025 14:47:15 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Denier
Date: 193-194
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 600 ‰
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie avec un important manque de métal mais qui reste parfaitement identifiable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [IMP CA]ES C PESC-E NIGER.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Pescennius Niger à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Caius Pescennius Niger Iustus Augustus Consul iterum", (L’empereur césar Caius Pescennius Niger juste auguste consul deux fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : INVICTO I-MPERAT.
Reverse description : Trophée constitué d'une cuirasse, de deux boucliers et de lances, au pied duquel se trouvent un casque et d’autres armes.
Reverse translation : “Invicto Imperatoris”, (À l’empereur invaincu).
Historical background
PESCENNIUS NIGER
(04/193-10/195)
C. Pescennius Niger was born around 135. Consul suffect in 190, he became governor of Syria the following year. After the death of Pertinax and in front of the negligence of Dide Julien, he is proclaimed august in Antioch with the support of all the East and of nine legions. At the same time, Septimius Severus was proclaimed in Carnuntum. Sévère is the fastest and takes Rome, then marches against Niger. The latter was beaten at Cyzicus in January and then at Nicaea in April 194. Definitively crushed at the battle of Issus (September 194), he fled from Antioch, but was captured and then executed with his family and many supporters.
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