FAQs

What makes a coin valuable?

Plus Icon

I have coins to sell, what’s the next step?

Plus Icon

How will my purchases be shipped?

Plus Icon

What happens if I’m not entirely happy with my purchase?

Plus Icon
KM40508

Septimius Severus, Gold Aureus, FVNDATOR PACIS, NGC AU, 5/5, 3/5.

Septimius Severus (AD 193-211), gold Aureus, Rome, AD 201, SEVERVS AVG PART MAX, laureate head right, rev. FVNDATOR PACIS, Severus, veiled, standing left, holding branch and scroll, 7.06g, 6h (RIC IV, 160). NGC AU, 5/5, 3/5, brushed.

NGC Certification 8534557-001

The reverse type styles Severus as the bringer of peace, veiled in piety and holding an olive branch but that, perhaps, should be seen alongside the events of his time. His reign was a period of military stability, the result of his military successes rather than peace per se and, after the civil war that framed his elevation to the throne, he sought to expand the empire by force. The obverse legend includes the victory title parthicus maximus, which Severus took after his significant, and brutal, military victories in Parthia. Sacking the city of Ctesiphon, in present day Iraq, in AD 197, the Roman army plundered its wealth and sold an enormous number of its population into slavery, then withdrew. The resulting destabilisation, and Rome's annexation of Northern Mesopotamia, accelerated Parthia's collapse but ultimately created a power vacuum leading to the rise of the Sasanians, from present day Iran, with whom Rome would fight for centuries to come.

FAQs

What makes a coin valuable?

Plus Icon

I have coins to sell, what’s the next step?

Plus Icon

How will my purchases be shipped?

Plus Icon

What happens if I’m not entirely happy with my purchase?

Plus Icon
1 of 4