bpv_651775 - MACRINUS Diobole
750.00 €(Approx. 780.00$ | 622.50£)
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Type : Diobole
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,62 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante mais buste parfaitement identifiable. Joli revers. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse legend : A K M OP SE -MAKRINOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Oppelios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L|B.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une couronne dans son bec.
Reverse translation : (an 2).
Commentary
Ce type semble totalement inédit avec ce revers et ce module. Aucune diobole ne semble encore recencée pour Macrin ! Monnaie énigmatique de la plus grande rareté.
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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