bpv_814555 - ELAGABALUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 218-220
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 15,32 g.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Elagabal tête laurée à droite, l’un des rubans de la couronne de lauriers passant sur l’épaule, un reste de draperie devant et derrière le buste (O*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M A ... ANTwNEINOS - SEB
Obverse translation : Empereur César Marc Aurèle Antonin Auguste.
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle au style de Carrhae debout à gauche sur une ligne de terre, les ailes déployées, la tête et queue à droite, tenant une couronne feuillée de laurier dans son bec, une étoile à huit branches entre les pattes.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPATOSTOB / .D. - .E.
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Style particulier, isolé par M. Prieur mais que R. McAlee n’a pas repris dans sa classification.
Heavy weights. Particular style, isolated by M. Prieur but which R. McAlee did not include in his classification
Heavy weights. Particular style, isolated by M. Prieur but which R. McAlee did not include in his classification
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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