v32_0312 - MACRINUS As, (MB, Æ 25)
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 225.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 265.00 €
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 225.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 265.00 €
Type : As, (MB, Æ 25)
Date: janvier - mars
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,47 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Usure importante au revers, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Patine marron superficielle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX TR P II COS II PP/ S|C.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) drapée debout de face, la tête tournée à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite et le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la seconde puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente en douze ans.
This is the first time we have offered this type for sale in twelve years.
This is the first time we have offered this type for sale in twelve years.
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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