bpv_950698 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Émèse, Syrie, Séleucie et Pierie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 13,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté, finement détaillé. Joli revers. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Macrin à droite, lauré, vu de trois-quarts en arrière, l’un des deux rubans de la couronne descendant sur l’épaule (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OP SE. MAKRINOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées, la tête et la queue tournées à gauche, tenant dans son bec une couronne perlée, un lambda dans le champ à gauche sous la couronne ; buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Shamash à gauche entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX. UPATO S.PP, (Dhmarcikhs Ex Upatos Patri Patridos)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
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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