brm_845309 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 219
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais et centré. Un beau buste de l’empereur au droit malgré quelques petites faiblesses. Joli revers détaillé. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG .
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus” (Antonin, pieux, heureux, auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICIT-AS//TEMP.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à droite avec sept rameurs et un pilote, gouvernail et voile ; sur la poupe, un étendard et un acrostolium.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum” (La Félicité du temps).
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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