bpv_222996 - ELAGABALUS Assarion
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Type : Assarion
Date: c. 218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,62 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré. Très beau portrait, mais frappe un peu molle sur la légende. Très joli revers de haut relief. Jolie patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée d’Élagabal à droite (O°).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNINO-S, (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Aurhlios Antonninos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Croissant surmonté de quatre étoiles à huit rais.
Reverse legend : MARKIANOPOLI//TWN, (Markianopolitwn)
Reverse translation : (de Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 2.
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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