bpv_706698 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Byblus, Phénicie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,80 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, court sur les légendes, le flan écalté à 10 heures au revers, à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine grise superficielle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, les deux rubans de la couronne laurée descendant derrière la tête (B*).
Obverse legend : AU K. M. 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 perlée ; entre les pattes de l’aigle, un petit autel tricorne ; dans le champ à gauche, une petite couronne.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPATO PP
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Ce type de variante avec la couronne à gauche, ne semblait pas avoir été signalé jusqu’à maintenant et ne figure pas comme tel dans l’ouvrage de M&K Prieur, p. 155-156.
This type of variant with the crown on the left did not seem to have been reported until now and does not appear as such in the work of M&K Prieur, p. 155-156
This type of variant with the crown on the left did not seem to have been reported until now and does not appear as such in the work of M&K Prieur, p. 155-156
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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