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Septime Sévère (193-211), avec Julia Domna, Caracalla et Geta - Aureus - Rome (203).
De très bon style et d'une qualité hors norme - Le plus bel exemplaire connu.
Exemplaire de la vente Italo Vecchi 8 du 4 décembre 1997, N°294 et de la vente NAC 92 du 23 mai 2016, N° 608 et de la vente Heritage 3051 du 8 janvier 2017, N° 34081 et de la vente Stack's Bowers du 16 août 2018, N° 20123.
7.26g - C. 4 - RIC IV 181b - Cal. 2590
FDC Exceptionnel - NGC GEM MS (5/5 et 5/5) fine style
This remarkable coin depicts all four members of the imperial family, and may be the most attractive one in the series which celebrated the marriage of Caracalla to Plautilla in April AD 202, the return from Africa of the Severan dynasty, and the decennalia of the emperor in AD 203, which led to an enormous distribution of ten aurei each to some 200,000 recipients, the plebs frumentaria and the soldiers stationed in Rome: " On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his coming to power Severus presented to the entire populace that received the grain dole and to the soldiers of the pretorian guard gold pieces equal in number to the years of his reign. He prided himself especially on this largesse, and, in fact, no emperor had ever before given so much to the whole population at once; the total amount spent for the purpose was two hundred million sesterces" (Cassius Dio LXXVII.1.1). When it was struck in the early AD 200s, the emperor's sons were still teenagers: the hatred which led, in AD 211, to the murder of Geta (dramatically related in Cassius Dio 78.2) had not yet shown itself; Severus hadn't yet pronounced his famous final instructions " Be harmonious (i.e. rule together as brothers), enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men" (Cassius Dio LXXVII.15.2); and Julia Domna hadn't yet had to remind them that " Earth and sea, my children, you have found a way to divide, and, as you say, the Propontic Gulf separates the continents. But your mother, how would you parcel her?
How am I, unhappy, wretched - how am I to be torn and ripped asunder for the pair of you? Kill me first, and after you have claimed your share, let each one perform the funeral rites for his portion. Thus would I, too, together with earth and sea, be partitioned between you" (Herodian 4.3.8). Here she is already depicted in-between, her eldest son Caracalla (born in April AD 188) in the honorary position on the left, wearing the laurel wreath which indicates him as 'Augustus', and her younger son Geta (born in March AD 189) on the right, shown bare-headed as he alone was 'Caesar'.
De très bon style et d'une qualité hors norme - Le plus bel exemplaire connu.
Exemplaire de la vente Italo Vecchi 8 du 4 décembre 1997, N°294 et de la vente NAC 92 du 23 mai 2016, N° 608 et de la vente Heritage 3051 du 8 janvier 2017, N° 34081 et de la vente Stack's Bowers du 16 août 2018, N° 20123.
7.26g - C. 4 - RIC IV 181b - Cal. 2590
FDC Exceptionnel - NGC GEM MS (5/5 et 5/5) fine style
This remarkable coin depicts all four members of the imperial family, and may be the most attractive one in the series which celebrated the marriage of Caracalla to Plautilla in April AD 202, the return from Africa of the Severan dynasty, and the decennalia of the emperor in AD 203, which led to an enormous distribution of ten aurei each to some 200,000 recipients, the plebs frumentaria and the soldiers stationed in Rome: " On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his coming to power Severus presented to the entire populace that received the grain dole and to the soldiers of the pretorian guard gold pieces equal in number to the years of his reign. He prided himself especially on this largesse, and, in fact, no emperor had ever before given so much to the whole population at once; the total amount spent for the purpose was two hundred million sesterces" (Cassius Dio LXXVII.1.1). When it was struck in the early AD 200s, the emperor's sons were still teenagers: the hatred which led, in AD 211, to the murder of Geta (dramatically related in Cassius Dio 78.2) had not yet shown itself; Severus hadn't yet pronounced his famous final instructions " Be harmonious (i.e. rule together as brothers), enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men" (Cassius Dio LXXVII.15.2); and Julia Domna hadn't yet had to remind them that " Earth and sea, my children, you have found a way to divide, and, as you say, the Propontic Gulf separates the continents. But your mother, how would you parcel her?
How am I, unhappy, wretched - how am I to be torn and ripped asunder for the pair of you? Kill me first, and after you have claimed your share, let each one perform the funeral rites for his portion. Thus would I, too, together with earth and sea, be partitioned between you" (Herodian 4.3.8). Here she is already depicted in-between, her eldest son Caracalla (born in April AD 188) in the honorary position on the left, wearing the laurel wreath which indicates him as 'Augustus', and her younger son Geta (born in March AD 189) on the right, shown bare-headed as he alone was 'Caesar'.