v21_2891 - ELAGABALUS Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 09-12/219
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Flan large et complet. Très jolie patine de médaillier. Revers magnifique laissant apparaître tous les détails des enseignes et de l'aigle légionnaire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Antoninus Pius Augustus", (L'empereur Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MILITVM.
Reverse description : Une aigle légionnaire entre deux étendards ; chacun des étendards a deux boucliers à sa base, un rond et un polygonal ; l'aigle un seul, rond ; l’aigle est tournée à droite.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
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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