E-auction 195-125376 - bpv_409080 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 28 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 January 2017 14:56:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 217
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,58 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré. Beau portrait de Macrin. Revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse legend : AUT K M OPPELL SEU - MAKREINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Oppelios Ceuhros Makrinos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Sérapis debout à gauche, coiffée du calathos, drapé, levant la main droite et tenant un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP STA LONGINOU NI-KOPOLITWN PROS I
Reverse translation : (De l‘upataeon Statius Longinus de Nicopolis près de l’Istrus).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2. Cuirasse décailles. Ptéryges fines. Les pièces de Macrin seul sont beaucoup plus rares que les pentassaria où il est associé avec son fils Diaduménien.
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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