E-auction 644-651929 - bpv_652420 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 63 € |
| Maximum bid : | 63 € |
| End of the sale : | 18 August 2025 14:57:20 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,75 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure plus marquée au revers qu’au droit. Patine grise superficielle. A été nettoyé anciennement
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A*1).
Obverse legend : AUT. K. M. OP. SE. - MAKRINOS SEB (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur une cuisse d'animal de sacrifice, les ailes déployées, la tête et queue à droite, tenant une couronne perlée de laurier dans son bec.
Reverse legend : .DHMARC. EX UPATO:/ .D. - .E. (Dhmarcikhs Exousias Upatos)
Reverse translation : (Puissance tribunitienne, consul ).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, quatre-vingt six exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont en musées Paris (7), Gaziantep (Zeugma hoard), Berne, Yale (ex Doura), Boston (ex Gush Halav Hoard) et ANS.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, eighty-six examples are now listed, including in museums in Paris (7), Gaziantep (Zeugma hoard), Bern, Yale (ex Doura), Boston (ex Gush Halav Hoard) and ANS
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, eighty-six examples are now listed, including in museums in Paris (7), Gaziantep (Zeugma hoard), Bern, Yale (ex Doura), Boston (ex Gush Halav Hoard) and ANS
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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