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bpv_569671 - MACRINUS Cinq assaria

MACRINUS Cinq assaria XF
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Price : 200.00 €
Type : Cinq assaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,60 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Bustes affrontés de Macrin lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière et de Diaduménien, drapé et cuirassé, tête nue à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AU K OPELLI SEU MAKREINOS K M OPELLI ANTWNEINOS (Autokrator Kaisar Oppelios Seuhros Makrinos Kaisar Markos Opollios Antwneinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Opellius Sévère Macrin et César Marc Opellius Antonin).

Reverse


Reverse description : Apollon nu debout de face, tourné à droite, la main droite au-dessus de sa tête, tenant un arc de la main gauche, un arc ; dans le champ à droite, un serpent enroulé autour d’un arbre.
Reverse legend : UP PONTIAN-OU M(AR)-KIANOPOL//ITWN/ -|E, (Upatewn Pontanou Markianopoleitwn).
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Pontanioy Marcianopolis).

Commentary


Variante de légende de droit.

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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