bpv_731874 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: an 215
Mint name / Town : Caesarea Maritima, Palestine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,70 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et épais, éclaté à 5 heures, décentré des deux côtés sur les légendes à l’usure régulière. Buste particulier de Macrin. Joli revers. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Prieur 1678 (1 ex.) - .-
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT KAI M OP SE MAKRINOS
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Septime Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur une torche tournée à droite sur laquelle s’enroule un serment, les ailes déployées, les pattes écartées, tournant la tête à gauche, tenant une couronne dans son bec ; tete de taureau à droite entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPATOS PP
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids lourd Ce type semble de la plus grande rareté.
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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