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Pertinax (193) - Denier - Rome (193).
D'une qualité exceptionnelle - Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la vente ArtCoins 3 du 31 mai 2011, N° 385.
Cet exemplaire publié dans : Olivier Lempereur, Recherches numismatiques sur l'empereur Pertinax, Bordeaux 2020, N° 525a.
3.51g - C. 43 - RIC 11a
FDC Exceptionnel - CHOICE MS*
The star on the reverse quite certainly evokes beneficent gods, a type compatible with the legend Providentia Deorum - 'the providence of the gods', which is also found on coins depicting Sol (see J.-P. Martin, Providentia Deorum. Recherches sur certains aspects religieux du pouvoir impérial romain, Rome 1982, E. Manders, Coining Images of Power, Leiden and Boston 2012, p. 131, and M. Vojvoda, " Concept of Providentia Deorum within the Imperial Cult and Propaganda on Roman Imperial Coins during the Principate", in Arheologija i Prirodne Nauke, vol. 11 (2015), pp. 53-62). A successful soldier, who had started as a school teacher, with a humble background (his father was a freed slave), Pertinax would certainly have needed more 'divine providence', reigning for only three months at the beginning of the tumultuous 'Year of Five Emperors'. Providentia is meant to evoke the ability of the emperor to ensure the welfare of the population, but it was actually Pertinax's wish to reform the Empire which led to his assassination - the Praetorians having expected a large donative (which he might have promised the guards in order to be proclaimed emperor). Denarii of this type, but of a different style, have been noticed and attributed to the mint of Alexandria in Egypt, see R. Bickford-Smith, " The imperial mints in the East for Septimius Severus. It is time to begin a thorough reconsideration", in Rivista italiana. di numismatica, vol. XCVI (1994/1995), pp. 53-71: p. 54.
D'une qualité exceptionnelle - Un des plus beaux exemplaires connus.
Exemplaire de la vente ArtCoins 3 du 31 mai 2011, N° 385.
Cet exemplaire publié dans : Olivier Lempereur, Recherches numismatiques sur l'empereur Pertinax, Bordeaux 2020, N° 525a.
3.51g - C. 43 - RIC 11a
FDC Exceptionnel - CHOICE MS*
The star on the reverse quite certainly evokes beneficent gods, a type compatible with the legend Providentia Deorum - 'the providence of the gods', which is also found on coins depicting Sol (see J.-P. Martin, Providentia Deorum. Recherches sur certains aspects religieux du pouvoir impérial romain, Rome 1982, E. Manders, Coining Images of Power, Leiden and Boston 2012, p. 131, and M. Vojvoda, " Concept of Providentia Deorum within the Imperial Cult and Propaganda on Roman Imperial Coins during the Principate", in Arheologija i Prirodne Nauke, vol. 11 (2015), pp. 53-62). A successful soldier, who had started as a school teacher, with a humble background (his father was a freed slave), Pertinax would certainly have needed more 'divine providence', reigning for only three months at the beginning of the tumultuous 'Year of Five Emperors'. Providentia is meant to evoke the ability of the emperor to ensure the welfare of the population, but it was actually Pertinax's wish to reform the Empire which led to his assassination - the Praetorians having expected a large donative (which he might have promised the guards in order to be proclaimed emperor). Denarii of this type, but of a different style, have been noticed and attributed to the mint of Alexandria in Egypt, see R. Bickford-Smith, " The imperial mints in the East for Septimius Severus. It is time to begin a thorough reconsideration", in Rivista italiana. di numismatica, vol. XCVI (1994/1995), pp. 53-71: p. 54.