v13_0490 - ELAGABALUS Denier
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 365.88 €
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Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 365.88 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 08-12/218
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et complet des deux côtés avec une magnifique patine de médaillier
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES EXERCITVS.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée assise à gauche tenant un aigle de la main droite et une enseigne militaire “signa” de la main gauche ; devant elle, une autre enseigne militaire “signa”.
Reverse translation : "Fides Exercitus", (La Fidélité de l'armée).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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