Description
This coin is a silver denarius, issued by the Ancient Roman Empire, 222-235 A.D. The obverse depicts Severus Alexander facing right, and the reverse depicts the emperor at a tripod altar.
Severus Alexander (Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander; c. 208 – 19 March 235) was Roman emperor from 222 to 235, and the last from the Severan dynasty. He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter’s assassination in 222. His own assassination marked the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century—nearly 50 years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.
