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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 1873402, member: 25357&quot;]I find the reverse of this Severus Alexander to be appropriate in an ironic sort of way.&nbsp; It depicts Providentia, the figure in Roman mythology who represented divine personification of the ability to foresee and make provision.</p><p><br /></p><p>On this reverse she seems to be foreseeing prosperity and peace, holding two grain ears, over a modius&nbsp; of grain bushel and cornucopia, the ancient symbols of plenty.</p><p><br /></p><p>While Severus Alexander&#039;s reign started out as a time of relative prosperity, at least until the rise&nbsp; of the Sassanids in the east, it ended in war, strife and chaos within the empire.&nbsp; Severus Alexander was assassinated together with his mother in the mutiny of the Legio XXII near modern day Mainz in 235 AD, thus plunging the Roman empire into the Crisis of the Third Century; nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears Providentia may have been short sighted on this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]316458[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]316459[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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