bpv_521214 - ELAGABALUS Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant un beau revers inhabituel. Patine foncée
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection ENP
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : A KAISAR MA AUR - ANTwNEINOS - EUSEB, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antwneinos eusebios)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L.
Reverse description : Buste casqué et drapé d’Athéna à droite.
Reverse legend : E
Reverse translation : (An 5).
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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