v21_2886 - ELAGABALUS Denier
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 09-12/219
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan légèrement irrégulier. Joli revers. Patine de collection avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME I, 1995, n° 173
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTO-NINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Augusti”, (L’empereur Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERA-LI-TAS AVG II.
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite un abaque et de la gauche une corne d'abondance qui repose sur une base.
Reverse translation : “Liberalitas augusti iterum”, (La deuxième Libéralité de l’auguste) .
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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