bpv_941633 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, court sur les légendes. Beau portrait d’Élagabal. Revers inhabituel. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, cuirassé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Marcos Aurhlios Antoninos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc-Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Lion marchant à gauche.
Reverse legend : [NIKOPO]LITWN PROS I//STRWN
Reverse translation : (de Nicopolis près de l’Istrus, Danube).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Cuirassse formée d’écailles. Ptéryges fines. Variante très intéressante de buste avec le buste cuirassé vu de trois quarts en arrière.
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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