brm_660937 - SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce
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Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 223
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 21,87 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée, fissurée à 4h. Joli buste de l’empereur, bien détaillé. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR SEV ALEXANDER AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Alexandre Sévère à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Sévère Alexandre auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA DEORVM// S|C.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, appuyée sur une colonne, les jambes croisées, tenant une baguette de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un globe.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence des dieux).
Commentary
Ce sesterce semble infiniment plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Nous ne l’avons proposé qu’une seule fois, dans ROME IV !.
This sestertius seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest. We have only proposed it once, in ROME IV!
This sestertius seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest. We have only proposed it once, in ROME IV!
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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