SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS SILVER DENARIUS___Roman Imperial___RESTORED STABILITY TO ROME

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL ROMAN IMPERIAL SILVER DENARIUS OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS FROM 193 - 211 AD.
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Septimius Severus restored stability to the Roman Empire. He improved performance and increased morale by making changes in the military and praetorian guard.
THE SIZE IS 18.1 MM AND 2.56 GRAMS.
RIC 22
OBVERSE – IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG, laureate head of Septimius Severus right
REVERSE – VICT AVG TR P COS, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm branch
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
Septimius Severus was born in Africa, at Leptis Magna, on April 11, 145, and died in Britain, on February 4, 211, after reigning for 18 years as Emperor of Rome. He came to power by disposing of rivals with a better claim to power than his own. Septimius Severus died peacefully, leaving, as joint successors, his sons Caracella and Geta.
Following the murder of Pertinax, Rome supported Didius Julianus as emperor, but as Severus entered Rome, the supporters of Julianus defected, and soon the soldiers in Italy and the senators supported Severus; meanwhile, troops in the East proclaimed Syria's governor Pescennius Niger emperor, and the British legions, their governor Clodius Albinus. Severus defeated Niger at the Battle of Issus, and then marched into Mesopotamia, where he set up a new legion and declared war on Albinus. Even with the legions of Britain, Gaul, Germany, and Spain, behind him, Albinus still lost to Severus in 197.
Septimius Severus restored stability to the Roman Empire. He improved performance and increased morale by making (expensive) changes in the military and praetorian guard. He restored Hadrian's Wall and was involved in other construction projects. He also played the part of the traditional emperor: He reformed the grain supply for the city of Rome.... He put on games... for the people to keep them diverted and on his side. He freed his friends from debt and gave donatives to the soldiers and people. He also heard lawsuits.... Severus also began appointing his own men to the senate, one the emperor's traditional prerogatives.
LEGACY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
During the later republic and most of the empire, Rome was the dominant power in the entire Mediterranean basin, most of western Europe, and large areas of northern Africa. The Romans possessed a powerful army and were gifted in the applied arts of law, government, city planning, and statecraft, but they also acknowledged and adopted contributions of other ancient peoples—most notably, those of the Greeks, much of whose culture was thereby preserved.
The Roman Empire was distinguished not only for its outstanding army—the foundation upon which the whole empire rested—but also for its accomplishments in intellectual endeavours. Roman law, for example, was a considered and complex body of precedents.
Rome’s roads were without match in the ancient world, designed for comparatively fast transportation and adapted to a wide variety of functions: commerce, agriculture, mail delivery, pedestrian traffic, and military movements. Roman city planners achieved unprecedented standards of hygiene with their plumbing, sewage disposal, dams, and aqueducts. Roman architecture, though often imitative of Greek styles, was boldly planned and lavishly executed. Triumphal arches commemorated important state occasions, and the famous Roman baths were built to stir the senses as well as to cleanse the body.
Finally, Latin, the language of the Romans, became the medium for a significant body of original works in Western civilization. Cicero’s speeches, the histories of Livy and Tacitus, Terence’s drama, and above all the poetry of Virgil are all part of the legacy of the Roman Empire
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