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Hadrianopolis AE28 Moushmov 2652cf of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus AE28 of Hadrianopolis, Thrace. (AVT K L CEP) CEVHPOC, laureate draped bust right / ADRIANOPOLITWN, Hercules advancing right shouldering Erymanthian Boar, Eurystheus cowering in storage jar right. Varbanov -.

Lot No.3137. About Fine, and Unlisted.

$ 225.

Moushmov -, Varbanov -, but Cf Moushmov 2652 of Caracalla and 2675 of Geta.

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.