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v23_0518 - MACRINUS Aureus

MACRINUS Aureus XF
XF
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 12 000.00 €
Estimate : 18 000.00 €
Realised price : 12 000.00 €
Type : Aureus
Date: 05-07/217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,73 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan large et complet des deux côtés à l’usure régulière avec une patine de trouvaille ancienne. Trace de coup ancien sur le grènetis extérieur au droit
Catalogue references :
C.14 (500f.) - RIC.58  - BMC/RE.61 v - HCC.22  - RCV.7304 (18000$) - Cal.2938
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du fonds Ciani, avril 1947, et de la trouvaille de Chantenay-Saint-Imbert (Nièvre), arrondissement de Nevers, canton de Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, signalé par une lettre de M de La Barre dans les procès verbaux de la Société Française de Numismatique, séance du 5 mars 1910, RN. 1910, p. v., p. XXIX, découvert en 1908 et payé 100 francs or à l’époque et vendu 4 000 francs en 1941

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus" (L'empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : FELICITAS TEMPORVM.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum” (La Félicité du temps).

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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