bpv_833283 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Joli buste de Macrin, bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert foncé
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 OPELL SEU - MAKRINOS, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Mars casqué, vêtu militairement debout à gauche, appuyé sur un bouclier de la main droite et tenant de la main gauche une haste renversée.
Reverse legend : UP STA LON[GINOU NIKOPO]LITWN PROS// ISTRWN, (Upatewn Statius Longinou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Statius Longinus Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Commentary
Portrait inhabituel avec une cuirasse recouverte d’écailles.
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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