v49_0645 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
MONNAIES 49 (2011)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 400.00 €
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 400.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,68 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan un peu court sur les légendes. Portrait fantastique de haut relief où tous les détails de la chevelure et de la barbe sont visibles. Aigle de toute beauté au revers. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Prieur 1180 (91 ex.)
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M OP SEOU MAKREINOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seouhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne dans son bec ; une étoile entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. - EX. UPATOS PP, (Dhmarcikhs Ex Upatos Patri Patridos)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. L’identification de l’atelier est certaine grâce aux émissions de présentation sous Caracalla qui montrent la Tyché de la ville assise sur un mont, un dieu-fleuve tenant le phare de la ville et nageant à ses pieds. On note que les sigma sont gravés en C. Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, cent vingt exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés.
Lightweight. The identification of the workshop is certain thanks to the presentation issues under Caracalla which show the city's Tyche seated on a mountain, a river god holding the city's lighthouse and swimming at her feet. Note that the sigmas are engraved in C. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, one hundred and twenty examples are now listed.
Lightweight. The identification of the workshop is certain thanks to the presentation issues under Caracalla which show the city's Tyche seated on a mountain, a river god holding the city's lighthouse and swimming at her feet. Note that the sigmas are engraved in C. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, one hundred and twenty examples are now listed.
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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