v31_0358 - ELAGABALUS Denier
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 220
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,41 g.
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de haut relief. Patine foncé avec des reflets mordorés. Ayant conservé une partie de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Antoninus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTAS AVG/ -|*-.
Reverse description : Libertas (la Liberté) drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un bonnet de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Libertas Augusti”, (La Liberté de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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