bpv_809216 - MACRINUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Berytus, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 14,12 g.
Rarity : R2
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Monnaie sur un flan épais, centré, à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine verte et sable
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Reverse
Reverse description : Tyche debout de face et couronné par une petite Nike debout sur une colonne ; le tout dans un temple hexastyle.
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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