bpv_752713 - ELAGABALUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,60 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan centré à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O*.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LADI-CEON//.
Reverse description : Buste de la Tyché de Laodicée à droite dans un temple distyle.
Reverse legend : D E
Reverse translation : (de Laodicée).
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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