brm_200618 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 01-03/222
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Portrait de toute beauté, empreint de réalisme avec une patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG .
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, avec favoris et barbu (A*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SVMMVS SACERDOS AVG/ *|-.
Reverse description : Élagabal lauré et drapé debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant de la main gauche une branche de cyprès pointée en bas et de la main droite une patère sacrifiant au-dessus d’un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Summus Sacerdos Augusti”, (Le prêtre de rang le plus élevé).
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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