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v21_2852 - MACRINUS Antoninien

MACRINUS Antoninien AU
AU
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 550.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 620.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 750.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 06-07/217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,58 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Une jolie patine avec des reflets dorés recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
Catalogue references :
C.38 var. (12f.) - RIC.77 var. - BMC/RE.19  - RSC.38 b - RCV.7323 (750$) - MRK.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG .
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VATORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un foudre ailé de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche, protégeant Macrin debout à droite, vêtu de la toge.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter conservateur).

Commentary

Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de D. Sear (p. 581, n° 7323).

Historical background

MACRINUS

(11/04/217-8/06/218)

Macrin was born in 164 in Cherchell in Mauretania. He is not a senator, but a knight, of indigenous (Moorish) origin. Procurator of the "res privata" (private fund of the Emperor) of Caracalla, he then became prefect of the Praetorium from 212. After the assassination of Caracalla on April 8, 217, he was acclaimed emperor on April 11. He will never come to Rome and remains in Antioch. He deifies Caracalla, but exiles Julia Domna, who lets herself die. He takes the title of Severus to rally the supporters of the Severian family to him and gives the prænomen of Antoninus to his son, Diadumenian, promoted to Caesar. Trying to conciliate everyone, he runs into the army, which misses Caracalla. Soldiers quartered in Emesa proclaimed Elagabalus on May 16, 218. Defeated in June, Macrinus fled. Hearing of the death of Diaduménien, he tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from his chariot and is finished off by his own soldiers..

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