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v38_0713 - MACRINUS Dupondius

MACRINUS Dupondius VF
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
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Type : Dupondius
Date: janvier - mars
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,05 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Épaisse patine vert noir
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
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 II P P/ SC.
Reverse description : Macrin, vêtu de la toge et tenant le scipio de la main droite couronné par la Victoire debout derrière lui dans un quadrige au pas à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum/ Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Le seul exemplaire signalé provient de la vente Egger, 14 avril 1913, n° 1510. De la plus grande rareté.

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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