Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIII 23 March 2017
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Severus Alexander AV Aureus. Rome, AD 227. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate and draped bust right / P M TR P VI COS II P P, Mars walking right, holding spear and trophy. RIC 60c; BMC 407 note; C. -; Biaggi 1328; Calicó 3111. 6.34g, 20mm, 5h.
Good Extremely Fine. Rare; only 6 examples on CoinArchives.
Ex H. D. Rauch 75, 6 May 2005, lot 644.
A naturally unwarlike young man, Severus Alexander's early coinage is almost entirely without any types of specific interest, likely because the hands in which power lay at this time wished it so. While Alexander was still a minor, government was maintained by Julia's Maesa and Mamaea, women who one would assume preferred to see Alexander's figure remain on the throne while avoiding any of the scandal seen under Elagabalus.
Here shown simply as the god Mars, later issues of a very similar reverse type depict either Alexander with the same attributes, or perhaps Romulus, one of the two mythical founders of Rome and the supposed son of Mars.
Good Extremely Fine. Rare; only 6 examples on CoinArchives.
Ex H. D. Rauch 75, 6 May 2005, lot 644.
A naturally unwarlike young man, Severus Alexander's early coinage is almost entirely without any types of specific interest, likely because the hands in which power lay at this time wished it so. While Alexander was still a minor, government was maintained by Julia's Maesa and Mamaea, women who one would assume preferred to see Alexander's figure remain on the throne while avoiding any of the scandal seen under Elagabalus.
Here shown simply as the god Mars, later issues of a very similar reverse type depict either Alexander with the same attributes, or perhaps Romulus, one of the two mythical founders of Rome and the supposed son of Mars.