v38_0721 - ELAGABALUS Denier
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 05-07/219
Date: 219
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel d’Élagabal. Joli revers de style fin. Patine avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Augustus”, (L'empereur Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LA-ETIT-IA PVBL.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un gouvernail posé sur un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Publica”, (la Joie publique).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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