brm_332837 - MACRINUS Sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 1 250.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 1 250.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 25,42 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré au droit. Usure régulière avec un beau portrait et un revers parfaitement et facilement identifiable. Monnaie exceptionnelle avec une patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES 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 : LIBERALITAS AVGVSTI// SC.
Reverse description : Macrin et Diaduménien assis sur des chaises curules posées sur une plate-forme, accompagnés par un officier derrière eux ; devant, la Libéralité tenant un abaque et une corne d’abondance ; au pied de la plate-forme, un citoyen prêt à recevoir une largesse.
Reverse translation : “Liberalitas Augusti”, (La Libéralité de l’auguste).
Commentary
C’est LA monnaie en bronze la plus rare pour Macrin, absente de la majorité des collections, publiques ou privées ! Type rarissime que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente.
This is THE rarest bronze coin for Macrinus, absent from the majority of collections, public or private! An extremely rare type that we are presenting for sale for the first time
This is THE rarest bronze coin for Macrinus, absent from the majority of collections, public or private! An extremely rare type that we are presenting for sale for the first time
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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