bpv_608356 - ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: an 3
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait d’Élagabal à l’usure importante. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse legend : AU K M AURH AN-TwNEINOS SE
Obverse translation : (L’emperuer césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste.
Reverse
Reverse description : Vue du mont Argée de face couvert d’arbres et surmonté de statues posé sur un autel.
Reverse legend : MHTROPO KAISARIAS NEO/ ET B
Reverse translation : (de la ville de Césarée décorée/ an 2).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. .
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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