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Pautalia AE27 Moushmov 4176 of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus AE27 of Pautalia, Thrace. AVT L CEPTI SEVHEROC, laureate head right / OVLPIAC PAVTALLIAC, Zeus enthroned left holding Victory on a globe & scpeter.

Lot No.2565. VF and scarce, with an exceptional portait.

$ 250.

The reverse is a direct descendant of the types of Alexander the Great from 500 years earlier, with a representation of the great statue of Zeus in Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders!

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.