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v21_2913 - ELAGABALUS and JULIA MAESA Pentassaria

ELAGABALUS and JULIA MAESA Pentassaria VF
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Type : Pentassaria
Date: c. 218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 9,34 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beaux portraits. Flan un peu court, échancré et légèrement piqué. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Bustes affrontés d’Élagabal et de Julia Maésa ; Élagabal est buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière et Julia Maésa est diadémée et drapée à gauche, vue de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNEINOS AUG IOULIA MAISA AUG, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Aurhlios Antonninos Augustos Ioulia Maisa Augusta).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin et l’augusta Julia Maésa).

Reverse


Reverse description : Dionysos nu debout à gauche, tenant un canthare de la main droite qu’il verse et un thyrse de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, une panthère debout à gauche.
Reverse legend : UP I(OU)LU ANT SELEUK(OU) MARKIANOPOLIT(WN)/ E|-, (Upateon Ioliou Seleukou Markianopolitwn).
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Julius Antonius Seleucus de Marcianopolis).

Historical background


ELAGABALUS and JULIA MAESA

(218-222)

Elagabalus is the son of Julia Soemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus. He is above all the grandson of Julia Maésa who favored his accession to the throne. Julia Maesa was the sister of Julia Domna and the wife of Julius Avitus. She is therefore the sister-in-law of Septimius Severus. During the reign of Elagabalus, it is she who holds the reality of power. She will not hesitate to sacrifice her daughter and her grandson in order to retain power within her daughter by raising her last grandson Alexandre Sévère, first to the caesarat, then to the august..

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