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Price : 295.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 295.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 193
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 22,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré. Très beau portrait avec une épigraphie remaniée. Joli revers. Superbe patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES L .SEPT - SEV PERT AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Lucius Septimus Severus Pertinax Augustus", (L’empereur césar Lucius Septime Sévère Pertinax auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LEG XIIII GEM M V // TR P COS/ S|C.
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire, avec un collier autour du cou, entre deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : "Legio quartum decimus Germina Martia Victrix// Tribunicia Potestate Consul", (La quatorzième légion Gemina Martia Victrix// revêtu de la puissance Ttribunicienne consul).
Commentary
Poids léger. Il s'agit du seul type de sesterce frappé lors de cette rare émission. Type regravé au droit.
Lightweight. This is the only type of sestertius struck in this rare issue. Type re-engraved on the obverse
Lightweight. This is the only type of sestertius struck in this rare issue. Type re-engraved on the obverse
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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