bpv_490178 - DIADUMENIAN Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste cuirassé tête nue de Diaduménien à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B°01).
Obverse legend : KAI. M. OPEL. ANTWNEINOS, (Kaisar, Markos Opellios Antwneinos).
Obverse translation : (César Marc Opellius Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SC.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne de laurier terminée par une étoile à six rais.
Reverse legend : / .D. - .E. .
Commentary
Portrait particulier faisant penser aux tétradrachmes (Prieur 248). Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche.
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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