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bpv_443074 - MACRINUS Hexassaria

MACRINUS Hexassaria XF
XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Hexassaria
Date: c. 217-218
Mint name / Town : Byzance, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Macrin
Catalogue references :
BMC.-  - GC.-  - Cop.-  - ACBP.  - Varbonov

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M OPEL SEOU(UH) MAKREINOS AU.
Obverse translation : (Lempereur césar Marc Opollius Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse

Reverse description : Jupiter sous la forme d’un taureau galopant à gauche enlevant Europe assise à gauche, drapée son voile flottant au-dessus de la tête ; sous le taureau, un dauphin au-dessus des flots.
Reverse legend : BU-Z-A-NTIWN.
Reverse translation : (de Byzance).

Commentary

Trou de centrage visible de chaque côté. L’enlèvement d’Europe par Zeus (Jupiter) est un thème récurrent dans le monnayage grec et provincial. Europe est aussi un symbole pour la cité de Byzance, placée sur la côte européenne du Bosphore.

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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