bpv_407802 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Assarion
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 200
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,40 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan bien centré. Beau portrait de Septime Sévère. Joli revers de haut relief. Belle patine bert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Septime Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU K L SEP - SEUHROS, (Autokrator Kaisaros Lukios Septimios seuhros)
Obverse translation : (Imperator césar Lucius Septimius Sévère).
Reverse
Reverse description : Homonoia Concordia (la Concorde) drapée debout à gauche, coiffée du calathos, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : MARKIANO-POLITWN, (Markianopolitwn)
Reverse translation : (Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Les assaria sont moins courantes pour la cité de Marcianopolis que pour celle de Nicopolis. Ce type de revers se rencontre souvent pour la cité située près de l’Istrus mais semble complètement inédit et non recensé pour la cité éponyme de la sœur de Trajan. Manque aux ouvrages consultés.
Assaria are less common for the city of Marcianopolis than for that of Nicopolis. This type of reverse is often found for the city located near Istrus but seems completely unprecedented and not recorded for the eponymous city of Trajan's sister. Missing from the consulted works
Assaria are less common for the city of Marcianopolis than for that of Nicopolis. This type of reverse is often found for the city located near Istrus but seems completely unprecedented and not recorded for the eponymous city of Trajan's sister. Missing from the consulted works
Historical background
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
(13/04/193-4/02/211)
Septimius Severus was born in 146 in Leptis Magna in Africa (Libya). After a brilliant military career under the reigns of Marc Aurèle and Commodus, he was consul suffect in 185. At the time of Pertinax's death, he was governor of Upper Pannonia. Acclaimed emperor on April 13, 193, he quickly eliminated Dide Julien, his compatriot (June 28), and associated Albin with power as Caesar before fighting Pescennius Niger in the East. In 195, he fictitiously entered the Antonine family by being adopted post-mortem. He defeats and executes Niger and leads a brilliant campaign in Arabia. In 197, he got rid of his last adversary, Albin, who proclaimed himself august. Severus prepares the establishment of his dynasty by giving the title of Augusta to Julia, his wife, in 194, of Caesar to Caracalla, in 196, then of Augustus in 198 when Geta, his second son, becomes Caesar. Sévère will spend fifteen years consolidating the borders of the Empire by winning numerous victories over the Parthians (197-198), then in Africa (207) and, finally in Brittany (208-211), where he died..
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