bpv_608910 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré avec une faiblesse de frappe au droit sur le buste à l’usure régulière. Belle patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse legend : AU K OPPEL SEUH - MAKRIN[OS], (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opelios Seuhros Makrinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Hermès (Mercure) nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP P FOU PONTIA-NOU NIKOPOLITWN/ PR-OS// ISTRW (Upatewn Publios Fouluios Pontianou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron).
Reverse translation : (Magistrat Publius Fulivius Pontianos de Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Très beau buste inhabituel. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov, GIC, I, p. 297, n° 3583.
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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