bpv_1022140 - ELAGABALUS Unité
225.00 €(Approx. 254.25$ | 191.25£)
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 218-222
Mint name / Town : Berytus, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers mais jolie représentation. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé d’Élagabal à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Antonin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL IVL AVG FEL// BER.
Reverse description : Marsyas nu debout à droite sur une base, l’outre de vin sur l’épaule face à un monument architectural formé de deux ailes distyle.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Iulia Augusta Felicia Berytus”, (Colonie Julia Augusta heureuse de Beyrouth).
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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