bpv_730485 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Edessa, Mésopotamie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré où le portrait de Macrin est inspiré de celui de Caracalla. Beau revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, au visage de Caracalla, vu de trois-quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AU K. M. OPEL SE. MAKREINOS SE, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à droite, tenant dans son bec une couronne feuillée ; un petit temple ou autel entre les pattes.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX -UPATOS., (Dhmarrcikhs Eq Ousias Upatos)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, seize exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, dont quatre en musées, ANS, Paris, Gaziantep et Berne.
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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