April 26, 2024
AUREUS OF Severus Alexander, AD 222-235. Gold Aureus weight 6.01 g.
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Gold Aureus of IMP. Severus Alexander, AD 222-235. Authentic Gold Aureus (6.01 g) minted at Rome, c. AD 223. Laureate, cuirassed and draped bust right of Severus Alexander. Reverse: Pax standing left holding branch and scepter. Severus Alexander (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus; 1 October 208 – 18 or 19 March 235) was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235. Alexander was the last emperor of the Severan dynasty. He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.Alexander was the heir apparent to his cousin, the eighteen-year-old Emperor who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards, who, as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into the Tiber river. He and his cousin were both grandsons of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa, who had arranged for Elagabalus' acclamation as emperor by the famed Third Gallic Legion. It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.As emperor, Alexander's peace time reign was prosperous. Assessment of military conflict against the rising Sassanid Empire is mixed, though the Sassanid threat was checked.
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