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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Severan Period| > |Septimius Severus| > SH57786
Septimius Severus 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D.
|Septimius| |Severus|, |Septimius| |Severus| |9| |April| |193| |-| |4| |February| |211| |A.D.|, 193 A.D. - The Year of Five Emperors. On 1 January, the Senate selected Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. The Praetorian Guard assassinated him on 28 March and auctioned the throne to the highest bidder, Didius Julianus, who offered 300 million sesterces. Outraged by the Praetorians, legions in Illyricum select Septimius Severus as emperor; in Britannia the legions select their governor Clodius Albinus, and in Syria the legions select their governor Pescennius Niger. On 1 June Septimius Severus entered the capital, put Julianus put to death and replaced the Praetorian Guard with his own troops. Clodius Albinus allied with Severus and accepted the title of Caesar. Pescennius Niger was defeated, killed and his head displayed in Rome.
SH57786. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 651, BMCRE V 469, SRCV II 6411, gVF, scratches, Rome mint, weight 16.761g, maximum diameter 29.1mm, die axis 0o, the "Year of Five Emperors," 193 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES L SEPT SEV PERT AVG, laureate bust right; reverse FIDEI LEG TR P COS, Fides standing slightly left, Victory in right, vexillum vertical behind in left, S - C across fields; handsome portrait from very early in his reign; SOLD











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