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bpv_113688 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien

MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien VF/XF
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Beroea, Syrie, Cyrrhestica
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 15,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Portrait inhabituel, légèrement corrodé, avec un revers de haut relief bien conservé
Catalogue references :
Prieur 895 (3 ex.)
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire vient de ROME II, 1996, n° 29, de MONNAIES XIII, n° 474, c’est le 0895_005 de la base TSP

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : [AUT K] M OP S-E MAKRINOS SE, (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Souhros Makrinos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse

Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à gauche, tenant une couronne dans son bec ; dans le champ à gauche, une palme ; entre les pattes, un phénix, les serres posées sur les lettres B-E.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX. UPATO[S PP], (Dhmarcikhs Ex Upatos Patri Patridos).
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).

Commentary

Poids lourd.

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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