brm_1060839 - MACRINUS Denier
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Price : 225.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: juin - juillet
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau buste de Macrin, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
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 : FIDES MILITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (La Fidélité) debout drapée à gauche tenant dans chaque main, une enseigne militaire ; de chaque côté une enseigne militaire supplémentaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Ce denier appartient à la première émission de l’atelier de Rome après l’accession de Macrin à la pourpre.
This denarius belongs to the first issue of the Rome mint after Macrinus' accession to the purple
This denarius belongs to the first issue of the Rome mint after Macrinus' accession to the purple
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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