bpv_678636 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Carrhae, Mésopotamie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré à l’usure superficielle. Belle tête de Macrin. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine superficielle avec des reflets dorés, légèrement granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OP. SE. MAKRINOS S-E-B, (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées un point au dessus de chacune, la tête tournée à droite, la queue à gauche, tenant une couronne dans son bec. Les serres sont placées au-dessus d'un bucrane à grandes cornes lequel est entre deux points.
Reverse legend : DHMARC . EX . -UPA . TOS.
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Variante de légende de droit particulière. Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, vingt-quatre exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont, en musée, Paris (3), British Museum, Berne, Copenhague et Doura/Yale.
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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