bpv_649795 - ELAGABALUS Semis
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Type : Semis
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Berytus, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste d’Élagabam/ Revers de haut relief. Patine vert foncé au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR AN-TONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL/ BER EN DEUX LIGNES.
Reverse description : Deux hampes d'aigles légionnaires dans une couronne de laurier fermée par une rosace.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Heliopolitana”, (Colonie d’Héliopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du British Museum (BMC. 227.
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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