bpv_978714 - ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Édesse, Mésopotamie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 11,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli buste. Revers agréable. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT KAIS M AUR ANTwN
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : La Tyché d’Édesse assise à gauche sur un rocher, tenant de la main droite une branche ; à ses pieds dieu rivière nageant à droite.
Reverse legend : EDESSA
Reverse translation : (Colonie d’Édesse).
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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