ROMAN Severus II as Caesar AD 306-307 BI Quarter Nummus /Genius Wealth NGC (023)

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Severus II as Caesar AD 306-307

Billon Quarter-Nummus

Obverse: Laureate, cuirassed bust right.

Reverse:  Genius standing left, sacrificing over altar and holding
cornucopia.

In ancient Roman religion , the genius was
the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every
individual person, place, or thing.

Flavius Valerius Severus (or rarely Severus
II) (died February 307) was a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307 (1 May 305 -
summer 306 (as Caesar in the west under Constantius Chlorus );

summer 306 - March or April 307 (as Augustus in the west, in competition with
Constantine , Maxentius , and Maximian ).



Severus was of humble birth, born in the Illyrian provinces around the middle of
the third century AD. He rose to become a senior officer in the Roman army, and
as an old friend of Galerius , that emperor ordered that Severus be appointed
Caesar of the Western Roman Empire , a post that he succeeded to on 1 May 305.
He thus served as deputy-emperor to Constantius I (Constantius Chlorus),
Augustus of the western half of empire.



On the death of Constantius I in the summer of 306, Severus was promoted to
Augustus by Galerius himself, in opposition to the acclamation of Constantine I
(Constantius' son) by his own soldiers. When Maxentius , the son of the retired
emperor Maximian , revolted at Rome, Galerius sent Severus to suppress the
rebellion. Severus moved from his capital, Mediolanum , towards Rome, at the
head of an army previously commanded by Maximian. Fearing the arrival of
Severus, Maxentius offered Maximian the co-rule of the empire. Maximian
accepted, and when Severus arrived under the walls of Rome and besieged it, his
men deserted him and passed to Maximian, their old commander. Severus fled to
Ravenna , an impregnable position: Maximian offered to spare his life and treat
him humanely if the latter surrendered peaceably, which he did in March or April
307. Despite Maximian's assurance, Severus was nonetheless displayed as a
captive and later imprisoned at Tres Tabernae . When Galerius himself invaded
Italy to suppress Maxentius and Maximian, the former ordered Severus's death: he
was executed (or forced to commit suicide) on 16 February 307.

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