bpv_947552 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Rhasaena, Mésopotamie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,78 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Buste agréable. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : [...].
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d’Elagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière ; une lance devant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [...].
Reverse description : Centaure passant à droite ; à gauche, un buste de tyché ; derrière, deux vexilla.
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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