bpv_608374 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Belle tête d’Élagabal. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNEINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antonninos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Hygiée drapée debout à droite, tenant une phiale (patère) de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent qu’elle tient de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : MARKIANO-POLITWN., (Markianopolitwn).
Reverse translation : (de Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Variante de légende de droit (AUR au lieu de AURH). Légende de revers ponctuée à la fin.
Historical background
ELAGABALUS
(16/05/218-12/03/222)
Proclaimed emperor on May 16, 218, Elagabalus, sole august until the end of June or the beginning of July, left Syria to join Rome. Elagabalus stops at Nicomedia. He spent the whole winter there and fell ill. It was therefore in this city that he took up his second consulship. Elagabal will not arrive in Rome until July or September 219, bringing the black stone of his cult to install him in his capital. He will never return to Syria, quickly assassinated after an unequaled reign of turpitude and disorder.
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