bpv_408336 - ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria
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Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 218-222
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan un peu court sur les légendes à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait d’Élagabal. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AURH - ANTWNEINOS, (Autokratoros Kaisar Mapkos Aurhlios Antoninos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dionysos assis de face sur le dos d’un lion, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant un sceptre de la main droite.
Reverse legend : UP NOBIOU ROUFOU NIKOPOLITWN PROS I//ST-RON, (Upatewn Nobiou Roufou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Novius Rufus ville de Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Commentary
Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Trou de centrage visible de chaque côté. Représentation rare et inhabituelle au revers. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov I, p. 323, n° 3993.
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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