bpv_755734 - ELAGABALUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 218-222
Mint name / Town : Emèse, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,00 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légèrement décentré au droit, plus usé au droit qu’au revers. Patine superficielle, granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : MA ANTWNINOS
Obverse translation : (Marc Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Urne agonistique entre deux palmes.
Reverse legend : MHTRO K EMISWN/ HLIA/ PUQIA
Reverse translation : (Métropole colonie d’Emèse).
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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