E-auction 605-577426 - ELAGABALUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 218-220
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,81 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec une usure plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Très belle patine grise avec des reflets dorés, en particulier au revers
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Obverse
Obverse description : Elagabal tête laurée à droite, les rubans de la couronne de lauriers flottant derrière la tête, un reste de draperie devant et derrière le buste.
Obverse legend : AUT K M A ... ANTwNEINO-S - SEB.
Obverse translation : Empereur César Marc Aurèle Antonin Auguste.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle aux ailes lignées debout à droite sur une ligne de terre, les ailes déployées, la tête et queue à gauche, tenant une couronne lisse de laurier dans son bec, une étoile à huit branches entre les pattes.
Reverse legend : DHMARC - EX UPATOS TO B / D - E.
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, deux cent vingt-sept exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont en musées Jérusalem (7), Paris, British Museum (2), Israel State Museum(2), Fitzwilliam Museum McLean collection, ANS (4), Yale (9 ex Doura).
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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