brm_360933 - MACRINUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: mai -juin
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Macrin. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Recouvert d’une jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Alain Poinsignon et de la collection MG
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 Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P .
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) drapée debout à gauche les jambes croisées, appuyée sur son bras gauche reposant sur une colonne et tenant un sceptre long de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Ce denier appartient à une phase de monnayage très courte, avant l'apparition de la barbe longue, comprise entre fin juillet et septembre 217.
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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