bpv_970724 - ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 218-222
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 8,62 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée, des faiblesses et une usure régulière. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AURHIOS - ANTWNEINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antoneinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Héra (Junon) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main droite tendue et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP [...] MARKIANOPLITWN, (Upateon Sergios Titoanou Markianopolitwn).
Reverse translation : (Hypateon [...] de Marcianopolis).
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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