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Anchialus AE26 Moushmov 2834 of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus AE26 of Anchialus, Thrace. AVT K CEP CEVEPOC, laureate, draped bust right / HGE C[T BARBAROU] AGCIALWN, Triptolemos flying right in biga of winged serpents.

Lot No.1287. VF, a rare and interesting type, with a beautiful smooth patina that the photo does not do justice on.

$ 225.
Triptolemos is described is the son of Keleus, the Eleusinian king, and his wife Metaneira, who welcomed in their palace the goddess Demeter, when she was mourning for her daughter Kore. In return for their kindness, Demeter gave Triptolemos ears of a corn and taught him the art of cultivation. Triptolemos became a teacher of agriculture over the whole world, and brings this knowledge on his chariot of winged serpents, while Demeter and Persephone look over him.

Septimius Severus was a general of great skill. Born in Africa in 146 AD, he married Julia Domna, it is said, who had a soothsayer's prediction that she would be married to an emperor. After Pertinax was killed and Didius Julianus won the throne by offering the greatest amount of money to the Praetorians, Septimius, by then the governor of Upper Pannonia, hurried to Rome with his Legions. Julianus was already dead by the time he got there in 193 AD. He disbanded the Praetorians, and then defeated his rival Pescennius Niger in the east, then Clodius Albinus in the west in 197 AD, finally dying of natural causes in Britain in 211 AD.