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brm_323076 - SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier

SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS Denier AU
145.00 €(Approx. 156.60$ | 124.70£)
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Type : Denier
Date: 198-200
Mint name / Town : Laodicée
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 550 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré. Magnifique portrait inhabituel de Septime Sévère. Joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés, tachée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : L. SEPT SEV AVG I-MP XI PART MAX.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Lucius Septimus Severus Augustus Imperator undecimum Parthicus Maximus", (Lucius Septime Sévère auguste grand pontife revêtu de la onzième acclamation impériale grand parthique).

Reverse


Reverse legend : COS - I-I-I - P - P.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Consul tertium Pater Patriæ”, (Consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).

Commentary


Poids léger. Portrait tout à fait inhabituel. Rubans de type 2. L’indication au revers avec COS III ne peut être qu’une erreur due au graveur car Septime Sévère ne prend sont troisième consulat qu’en 202 et l’atelier de Laodicée ferme alors ses portes.

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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