正面
正面的文字 SEVERVS - PIVS AVG BRIT.
正面的说明书 Tête laurée de Septime Sévère à droite (O*).
正面的翻译 "Severus Pius Augustus Britannicus", (Sévère Pieux Auguste Britannique).
背面
背面的文字 VICTORIAE - BRIT.
背面的说明书 Victoria (La Victoire) marchant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
背面的翻译 "Victoriæ Britannicæ", (À la Victoire Britannique).
历史细节
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
(13/04/193-4/02/211)
Septimius Severus was born in 146 in Leptis Magna in Africa (Libya). After a brilliant military career under the reigns of Marc Aurèle and Commodus, he was consul suffect in 185. At the time of Pertinax's death, he was governor of Upper Pannonia. Acclaimed emperor on April 13, 193, he quickly eliminated Dide Julien, his compatriot (June 28), and associated Albin with power as Caesar before fighting Pescennius Niger in the East. In 195, he fictitiously entered the Antonine family by being adopted post-mortem. He defeats and executes Niger and leads a brilliant campaign in Arabia. In 197, he got rid of his last adversary, Albin, who proclaimed himself august. Severus prepares the establishment of his dynasty by giving the title of Augusta to Julia, his wife, in 194, of Caesar to Caracalla, in 196, then of Augustus in 198 when Geta, his second son, becomes Caesar. Sévère will spend fifteen years consolidating the borders of the Empire by winning numerous victories over the Parthians (197-198), then in Africa (207) and, finally in Brittany (208-211), where he died..