bpv_461696 - MACRINUS Cinq assaria
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Cinq assaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré avec les grènetis visibles, un peu court sur la légende de droit. Beaux bustes affrontés de Macrin et de Diaduménien. Revers inhabituel
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Obverse
Obverse description : Bustes affrontés de Macrin lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière et de Diaduménien, drapé et cuirassé, tête nue à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AU K OPEL SEU MAKREINOS K M OPEL ANTWNEINOS KAI (Autokrator Kaisar Oppelios Seuhros Makrinos Kaisar Markos Opollios Antwneinos Kaisar)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Opellius Sévère Macrin et César Marc Opellius Antonin césar).
Reverse
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) debout à gauche, drapée, tenant de la main droite une tessère et de la main gauche une corne d’abondance.
Reverse legend : UP PONTIAN-OU MARKIANOPOL//ITWN/ -|E, (Upatewn Pontanou Markianopoleitwn)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Pontanioy Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Variante de légende de droit.
Historical background
MACRINUS
(11/04/217-8/06/218)
Macrin was born in 164 in Cherchell in Mauretania. He is not a senator, but a knight, of indigenous (Moorish) origin. Procurator of the "res privata" (private fund of the Emperor) of Caracalla, he then became prefect of the Praetorium from 212. After the assassination of Caracalla on April 8, 217, he was acclaimed emperor on April 11. He will never come to Rome and remains in Antioch. He deifies Caracalla, but exiles Julia Domna, who lets herself die. He takes the title of Severus to rally the supporters of the Severian family to him and gives the prænomen of Antoninus to his son, Diadumenian, promoted to Caesar. Trying to conciliate everyone, he runs into the army, which misses Caracalla. Soldiers quartered in Emesa proclaimed Elagabalus on May 16, 218. Defeated in June, Macrinus fled. Hearing of the death of Diaduménien, he tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from his chariot and is finished off by his own soldiers..
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