brm_260107 - PESCENNIUS NIGER Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 950.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 950.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 194
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 650 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,73 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux cotés. Beau portrait à l’usure très importante au droit. Joli revers. Patine grise superficielle, légèrement tachée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES [C PESC NIGE]-RIVS AVG COS II .
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Pescennius Niger à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Caius Pescennius Niger Augustus Consul iterum", (L’empereur césar Pescennius Niger auguste, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MINER. - VICT..
Reverse description : Minerva (Minerve) drapée et casquée, debout à gauche, tenant une victoire de la main droite et une lance de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Minerva Victrix”, (Minerve victorieuse).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Un des revers les plus rares pour cet empereur, que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente !.
Type 3 Ribbons. One of the rarest reverses for this emperor, which we are offering for sale for the first time!
Type 3 Ribbons. One of the rarest reverses for this emperor, which we are offering for sale for the first time!
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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