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Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2025)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: octobre - décembre
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire notamment au droit avec un joli buste. Patine de collection
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.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX TR P II COS P P.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée,la tête tournée à droite, debout à gauche, le pied droit posé sur un casque, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Iterum Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife, revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne, consul, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Type rare avec ce buste que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.
Rare type with this bust that we are presenting for the first time for sale!
Rare type with this bust that we are presenting for the first time for sale!
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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