brm_876288 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: avril - mai
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, légèrement décentré au revers. Joli buste. Patine marron-gris
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MARS VICTOR.
Reverse description : Mars nu, casqué, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, marchant à droite, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite, un trophée sur l’épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars victorieux).
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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