brm_550707 - MACRINUS As
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Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : As
Date: janvier - mars
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 2,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du stock de Münzenhandlung Manfred Olding et de la collection M. P
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 T-R 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).
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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