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Anchialus AE28 SNGCop 434 of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus Æ28 of Anchialus, Thrace. AV K L CEPT CEVHPOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right / OULPIANWN AGCIALEWN, eagle standing facing, head left, wreath in beak.

Lot No.1147. AE28. EF.

$ 160.

Septimius Severus AE28 of Anchialus, Thrace. AVT K L CEPT CEVHPOS, laureate draped bust right / OULPIANWN AGCIALEWN, eagle standing facing, head left, with wreath in its beak.

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.