v32_0309 - MACRINUS Denier
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
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Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: juin - juillet
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait inaugural de Macrin. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende de droit. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Macrin à droite, avec cuirasse, 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 : FELICITAS TE-MPORVM.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum”, (La Félicité des temps).
Commentary
Premier portrait de Macrin avec la barbe courte.
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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