brm_220930 - MACRINUS As
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 325.00 €
Type : As
Date: mai- juin
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,82 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire légèrement décentré au revers. Portrait de très bon style. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVII, n° 717
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTA PVBL [P M TR P]/ S C.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) assise à gauche, tenant de la main droite un sceptre et le bras gauche soutenant sa tête appuyé sur le siège ; à ses pieds à gauche, un autel paré.
Reverse translation : “Vota Publica Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate”, (Le vœu public, grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum.
Type 3 ribbons. Large pteryga under the paludamentum
Type 3 ribbons. Large pteryga under the paludamentum
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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