Live auction - bpv_158439 - MACRINUS Didrachme
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 19 April 2016 14:38:58 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Didrachme
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Tarse, Cilicie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,91 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Excellente frappe, coins très frais, bon centrage, remarquable qualité artistique des coins
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire, qui est le 0806_001 de la base TSP, provient de la vente Sternberg de 1981, lot 368 et de la Collection Levante, 1074 de son sylloge. C’est également la pièce qui illustre le type dans le Prieur
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AUT K M OP SEU - MAKRINOS SEB (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Makrinos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Hercule lauré, tenant un canthare de la main droite et appuyé sur sa massue posée sur le sol, adossés sur la peau du lion de Némée étendue.
Reverse legend : TAR MHTR KTISTHS.
Reverse translation : (Fondateur de la ville de Tarse ).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, trois exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, un seul en musée, à Boston.
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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