bpv_608268 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Assarion
Date: 220-222
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier de frappe un peu molle au droit sur la légende. Très joli revers de haut relief. Patine noire, légèrement granuleuse au droit
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste, lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU K M AURH - ANTWNEINOS (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antwneinos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Grappe de raisin.
Reverse legend : NIKOPOLEITWN PROS .
Reverse translation : (Nicopolis près de l’Istros).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Ce type semble moins courant pour Nicopolis que pour Marcianopolis.
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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