brm_663348 - ELAGABALUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: 08-12/218
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Coments on the condition:
Superbe buste au portrait inhabituel et stylisé. Faiblesse de frappe au revers. Jolie patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé d'Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Antoninus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS ANTONINI AVG.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout de face tournée à droite, drapée, tenant une patère de la main gauche et nourrissant un serpent qu'elle tient de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Salus Antonini Augusti”, (La Santé d’Antonin auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
ELAGABALUS
(16/05/218-12/03/222)
Proclaimed emperor on May 16, 218, Elagabalus, sole august until the end of June or the beginning of July, left Syria to join Rome. Elagabalus stops at Nicomedia. He spent the whole winter there and fell ill. It was therefore in this city that he took up his second consulship. Elagabal will not arrive in Rome until July or September 219, bringing the black stone of his cult to install him in his capital. He will never return to Syria, quickly assassinated after an unequaled reign of turpitude and disorder.
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