bpv_941671 - DIADUMENIAN Assarion
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Diaduménien. Très joli revers. Belle patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé tête nue de Diaduménien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°2).
Obverse legend : M OPELLI ANTWNEINO.
Obverse translation : (Marcus Opellius Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête à droite, tenant une couronne dans son bec.
Reverse legend : MARKIANOP-OLEITWN.
Reverse translation : (Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Exemplaire de style très fin.
Historical background
DIADUMENIAN
(04/217-8/06/218)
Caesar
Diadumenian becomes Caesar when his father Macrin is proclaimed august in April 217. He receives the title of prince of youth. Macrinus brings him into the Severian family by making him take the prænomen of Antoninus, as he himself seized that of Severus. After the proclamation of Elagabalus, Macrinus raised his son to august in May 218 for a very short period. Beaten in June, Macrin and Diaduménien fled. The latter is caught while trying to pass to the Parthians by crossing the Euphrates. He is killed.
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