bpv_807118 - MACRINUS Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré au droit. Superbe revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse legend : AUT. K. M. OP. SE. - MAKRINOS SEB (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Grand S C dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : D-E/ E
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Antioche était la capitale de la Syrie. Le monnayage de Macrin y est relativement important.
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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