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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 155023, member: 5682&quot;]Severus Alexander: Nice coin. Sad story.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was only 13 when he came into power and 26 when he was murdered along with his mother by his own military.</p><p><br /></p><p>His mother, the redoubtable Julia Mamaea, really ran the Empire through her advisors.The usurper, Maximinus, was a disloyal commander who ordered both mother and young emperor slaughtered along with their advisors. </p><p><br /></p><p>They died together with the mother clutching her unfortunate emperor child to her breast. Very sad story...but very typical of the fates of the emperors during the &quot;Third Century Crisis&quot; of the Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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