bpv_749164 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Beroea, Syrie, Cyrrhestica
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Joli buste de Macrin. Revers bien détaillé. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste de Macrin à droite, lauré, drapé et cuirassé, vu de trois-quarts en avant, les deux rubans derrière la tête (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K. MA. OP... SE. MAKRINOS SE, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées, la tête et la queue tournées à gauche, tenant dans son bec une couronne feuillée, un griffon ailé de face entre les pattes, B - E dans le champ sous les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX. UPATOS TO .D., (Dhmarcikhs Ex Ousias Upatos D)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, huit exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, aucun en musée.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, eight examples are now listed, none in a museum
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, eight examples are now listed, none in a museum
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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