v21_2861 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Séleucie, Syrie, Séleucie et Pierie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,25 g.
Coments on the condition:
Portrait inhabituel. Très joli revers. Une patine grise recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
Catalogue references :
Prieur 1190 (33 ex.)
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de CNG 39, 18 juin 1996, n° 989
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : .AUT K M OP SE- . - MAKRINOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seouhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face sur un foudre, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une couronne dans son bec.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX. UPATO, (Dhmarcikhs Ex Upatos)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids lourd pour ce type. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire décrit dans l’ouvrage de M. Prieur (p. 139, n° 1190).
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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