brm_278934 - MACRINUS Denier
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: octobre - décembre
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,83 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Patine grise superficielle. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :
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 arrière (A*2).
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 : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges pratiquement invisibles sous le paludamentum. Ce type de buste semble beaucoup plus rare associé à ce revers.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges virtually invisible under the paludamentum. This type of bust seems much rarer associated with this reverse.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges virtually invisible under the paludamentum. This type of bust seems much rarer associated with this reverse.
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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