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brm_238248 - MACRINUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: 10-12/217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,15 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait particulier de Macrin. Joli revers avec un foudre démesuré. Très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
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 Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONTIF - MAX T-R P COS P P.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Portrait caractéristique de la deuxième émission.
Type 3 ribbons. Characteristic portrait of the second issue
Type 3 ribbons. Characteristic portrait of the second issue
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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