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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,07 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré au droit, court au revers sur la légende. Belle tête de Macrin de haut relief. Joli revers. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
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
Rubans de type 2. Dans la base TSP main tenue par Michel Prieur, cent vingt exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés. Cet exemplaire est illustré dans l’ouvrage de M&K Prieur, p. 138, n° 1180.
Type 2 ribbons. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, one hundred and twenty examples are now listed. This example is illustrated in the work of M&K Prieur, p. 138, no. 1180
Type 2 ribbons. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, one hundred and twenty examples are now listed. This example is illustrated in the work of M&K Prieur, p. 138, no. 1180
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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