brm_968695 - MACRINUS Antoninien
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Price : 200.00 €
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Price : 200.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: juin - juillet
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie bien centrée, avec un beau buste au droit finement détaillé. De petites faiblesses au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG .
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Macrin à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS - PVBLICA.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) drapée assise à gauche, tenant un sceptre vertical de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite, nourrissant un serpent enroulé autour d’un autel, palcé devant elle.
Reverse translation : “Salus Publica”, (la Santé publique.
Commentary
Poids très léger. Peut être fourré ? Rubans de type 3. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rareque ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
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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