bpv_797428 - ELAGABALUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 218-222
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré. Frappe un peu molle au droit, mais un joli buste de l’empereur. Revers fin et détaillé. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse legend : AUT K M AUR - ANTWNEINOS, (Autokratoros Kaisar Mapkos Aurhlios Antoninos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Sérapis drapé, coiffé du calathos, debout de face, levant la main droite et tenant un long sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : UP NOBIOU ROU-F-OU NIKOPOLITWN PR//OS/ IS/TR/ON, (Upatewn Nobiou Roufou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Novius Rufus ville de Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Commentary
Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Trou de centrage visible de chaque côté. Représentation du revers tout à fait inhabituelle. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov I, p. 327, n° 4057. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Large pteryga under the paludamentum. Centering hole visible on each side. Very unusual reverse representation. Same corners as the copy reproduced in the work of Varbonov I, p. 327, n° 4057. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
Large pteryga under the paludamentum. Centering hole visible on each side. Very unusual reverse representation. Same corners as the copy reproduced in the work of Varbonov I, p. 327, n° 4057. This type seems rarer than general 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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