bpv_727834 - ELAGABALUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 218-222
Mint name / Town : Zeugma, Syrie, Commagène
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé sur l’épaule gauche d’Elagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière .
Obverse legend : AUT KAI MARK AURAI ANTWNEINOS SE
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin pieux).
Reverse
Reverse description : Temple tétrastyle de Zeus Catabaites sur l’Acropole ; à l’exergue un capricorne à gauche.
Reverse legend : ZEUGM-ATEWN
Reverse translation : (De Zeugma).
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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