brm_353789 - MACRINUS Denier
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Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: mars -juin
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R2
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. Beau revers de style fin. Jolie patine grise de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Macrin à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P II COS P P.
Reverse description : Annona (l’Annone) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une corne d’abondance de la main gauche et des épis de la main droite, au dessous, un modius.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Revers inhabituel de la dernière émission de l’atelier de Rome. Malgré le nombre conséquent de deniers de Macrin présentés à la vente, c’est la première fois que nous proposons ce revers ! Semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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