bpv_1045782 - ELAGABALUS and JULIA MAESA Pentassaria
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Type : Pentassaria
Date: c. 218-220
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan mince, centré. Usure importante. Patine marron
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., (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Aurhlios Antonninos Augustos Ioulia Maisa Augusta)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste et Julia Maésa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse description : Dikaiosyne (l’Équité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP IOULU ANT SELEUKOU MARKIANOPOLI//TWN/ -|E, (Upateon Ioliou Seleukou Markianopolitwn)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Julius Antonius Seleucus de Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Poids léger. Trou de centrage au droit.
Lightweight. Right centering hole
Lightweight. Right centering hole
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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