v18_0499 - ELAGABALUS Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 33)
Date: 08-12/218
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan légèrement piqué. Flan gratté au revers. Sans patine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vieille collection du XIXe siècle du Sud de la France
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES EXERCITVS.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée assise à gauche tenant un aigle de la main droite et une enseigne militaire “signa” de la main gauche ; devant elle, une autre enseigne militaire “signa”.
Reverse translation : “Fides Exercitus”, (La Fidélité des armées).
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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