Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) ~ AR Denarius ~ NGC Choice Extra Fine

Septimius Severus (AD 193-211). AR denarius (20mm, 6h). NGC Choice XF. Rome, AD 200-201. SEVERVS AVG-PART MAX, laureate head of Septimius Severus right / FVNDATO-R-PACIS, Septimius Severus standing facing, veiled head left, branch upward in right hand, volumen in left. RIC IV.I 160.

NGC CERT #: 2117863-009

NGC DESCRIPTION: Sept. Severus, AD 193-211 ROMAN EMPIRE AR Denarius

NGC GRADE: Choice Extra Fine

ABOUT THE COIN:

Denarius was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War c. 211 BC to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the antoninianus.  It continued to be minted in very small quantities, likely for ceremonial purposes, until and through the Tetrarchy (293–313).

Septimius Severus ruled the Roman Empire from 198-217 AD.  As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.  Severus seized power after the death of the emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.  Severus travelled to Britain in 208, strengthening Hadrian's Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall.  In 209, he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland) with an army of 50,000 men but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill of an infectious disease in late 210.  He died in early 211 and was succeeded by his sons, who were advised by their mother and his powerful wife Julia Domna, thus founding the Severan dynasty. It was the last dynasty of the Roman Empire before the Crisis of the Third Century.

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