brm_844255 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Price : 90.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 90.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 220
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,95 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau denier sur un flan légèrement décentré. Superbe buste très bien venu à la frappe au droit. Très joli revers, finement détaillé. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVNDANTIA AVG/ -|*//-.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l'Abondance) debout de face tournée à gauche tenant des deux mains une corne d'abondance dont elle déverse les fruits à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L’Abondance de l’auguste).
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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