Obverse: Laureate and draped bust of Severus Alexander facing right. Reverse: Annona standing left, holding grain ears over a modius filled with grain ears to the left and cornucopia.

Severus Alexander, raised to the purple at thirteen after the murder of his cousin Elagabalus in AD 222, was in his fourth year of rule when this denarius was struck under the regency influence of his mother Julia Mamaea.

Annona was the personification of the grain supply, whose dependable arrival from Africa and Egypt fed the capital and underwrote the emperor's standing with the Roman populace.

Traces of deposits. Struck with fresh dies.

Attractive golden tone with some luster. Struck with fresh dies.

Toned, lustrous surface with some deposits.


3/19/25	$180	XF	CNG	— 0%
7/3/24	$70	VF	CNG	— 0%
1/3/24	$90	XF	CNG	▼ −50%
10/20/22	$200	MS	CNG	— 0%
8/3/22	$300	XF	CNG	▲ +67%

Denarius of Severus AlexanderRIC IV 133

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