v11_0302 - MACRINUS Denier
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: 10-12/217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 500 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et irrégulier avec un manque de métal à 5 heures. Frappe molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C 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 COS P P.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, le pieddroit posé sur un casque, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Début de cassure de coin visible sur le front de l’empereur, visible au 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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