v32_0311 - MACRINUS Denier
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 585.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 855.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 585.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 855.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: octobre - décembre
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,10 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers de très haut relief et bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. A conservé son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV - MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AEQVIT-AS AVG.
Reverse description : Æquitas (l'Équité) debout à gauche tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æquitas Augusti”, (L'Équité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Ce type pour la deuxième émission semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. La barbe de Macrin est beaucoup plus fournie.
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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