brm_335754 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Denier
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 228
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour le type sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait magnifique. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés irisés au droit. Conserve l’integralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP SEV ALE-XAND AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d'Alexandre Sévère à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PERPETVI-TA-TI AVG.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, s'appuyant sur une colonne, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Perpetuitati Augusti", (A l'Immortalité de l'empereur).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 1.
Historical background
SEVERUS ALEXANDER
(05/10/221-03/22/235)
Augustus
Alexander Severus, whose real name is Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, was born in 208 in Caesarea in Phenicia. He is the son of Julia Mamée and Gessius Marcianus, a procurator of Syrian origin. He is also the grandson of Julia Maésa, sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus, mother of Caracalla and Géta. He was adopted by his cousin Elagabalus on May 10, 221. When the latter was assassinated on March 13, 222, Alexander Severus was chosen to succeed him. He remains under the influence of his mother until the end of her reign. In 225, he married Orbiane who would soon be relegated. From 231, the borders of the Empire are threatened. It was first an expedition against the new Sassanid monarch Ardashir which ended with a truce in 233, the emperor having to go to the Rhine limes which the Germans had crossed. The emperor and his mother were assassinated in 235.
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