bpv_407809 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Assarion
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 45.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: c. 194-211
Mint name / Town : Anchialus, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan court sur les légendes à l’usure importante lisible et identifiable. Patine vert noir
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite.
Obverse legend : AU K L SEP- SEUHROS PER (Autokrator Kaisar Lusios Septimios Seuhros Pertinac)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Lucius Septime Sévère).
Reverse
Reverse description : Homonoia Concordia (la Concorde) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche, sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel.
Reverse legend : AGCIA-LEWN
Reverse translation : (d’Ulpia Anchialus).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans le Varbonov (p. 33, n° 271). Semble complètement inédit et non recensé avec ce type de revers (Héraklès/Hercule). Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés.
Same obverse corner as the copy reproduced in Varbonov (p. 33, no. 271). Seems to be completely unpublished and unrecorded with this type of reverse (Herakles/Hercules). Missing from all consulted works
Same obverse corner as the copy reproduced in Varbonov (p. 33, no. 271). Seems to be completely unpublished and unrecorded with this type of reverse (Herakles/Hercules). Missing from all 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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