v36_0541 - ELAGABALUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 08-12/218
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan régulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin à l’usure superficielle. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M T-R P - C-OS P P.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore assise à gauche, sur un bouclier, tenant une victoire de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines. Cassure de coin perceptible au droit, en fin de légende. Portrait tout à fait inhabituel. Association rare pour la deuxième émission d’un buste radié, drapé et cuirassé, vu de trois quarts en arrière avec ce type de revers. Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges. Noticeable die break on the obverse, at the end of the legend. Highly unusual portrait. Rare association for the second issue of a radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, seen from three-quarters behind with this type of reverse. This type is in fact much rarer than the reference works suggest.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Thin pteryges. Noticeable die break on the obverse, at the end of the legend. Highly unusual portrait. Rare association for the second issue of a radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, seen from three-quarters behind with this type of reverse. This type is in fact much rarer than the reference works suggest.
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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