bpv_706649 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Berytus, Phénicie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,77 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure beaucoup plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. Tête stylisée. Aigle bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise superficielle, piquée au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT. K. M OP SE - MAKREINOS, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Opellios Makrienos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Antonin 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, dauphin tourné à droite, enroulé autour d’un trident.
Reverse legend : DEMARC - EX UPATOS
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la quatrième fois).
Commentary
Tête taillée à la serpe. Style cru.
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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