brm_172944 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Price : 225.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 219
Mint name / Town : Irregular mint
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et bien centré. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
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 Augustus”, (L’empereur Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - M-I-L-ITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité militaire) debout de face, regardant à droite, tenant un vexillum de la main droite et une enseigne transversale de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité militaire).
Commentary
Imitation grossière d’un prototype de denier avec FIDES MILITVM pour la sixième émission.
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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