bpv_973688 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Des faiblesses et une usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Marcos Aurhlios Antoninos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc-Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dionysos (Bacchus) nu debout à gauche, tenant une grappe de raisin de la main droite et un thyrse de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : NIKOP[OLITWN] [...]
Reverse translation : (de Nicopolis [...]).
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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