v21_2908 - ELAGABALUS Assarion

MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Assarion

Date: c. 218

Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure

Metal : copper

Diameter : 15 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 2,08 g.

Coments on the condition:

Flan un peu court avec un revers médicinal magnifique. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au droit. Très jolie patine vert noir

Catalogue references :

BMC.- - Cop.- - GIC.- - AMNG. 1/920 - SNG/H.193

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O*).

Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTW(NE)(IN)OS], (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Aurhlios Antonninos).

Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).

Reverse

Reverse description : Serpent enroulé autour d’un bâton à gauche.

Reverse legend : MARKIANOPOLIT(WN), (Markianopolitwn).

Reverse translation : (de Marcianopolis).

Commentary

Au revers est représenté le bâton d’Esculape qui est aujourd’hui devenu le caducée.

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.

ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria XF

280.00 €

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ELAGABALUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien AU

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v21_2908 - ELAGABALUS Assarion

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

ELAGABALUS

(16/05/218-12/03/222)

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