E-auction 599-565620 - ELAGABALUS Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: fin
Date: 221
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,49 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, lauré, drapé et cuirassé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG/ */S|C.
Reverse description : Élagabal lauré et drapé debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant une branche de cyprès tournée vers le haut de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé ; derrière l'autel, dépouille de bœuf description.
Reverse translation : “Invictus Sacerdos Augusti”, (Le Prêtre invincible de l'empereur).
Commentary
Poids très 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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