E-auction 648-659275 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Émèse, Syrie, Séleucie et Pierie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,07 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré, un peu court sur les légendes. Belle tête de Macrin. Patine gris métallique, légèrement corrodée au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête de Macrin à droite, laurée, vu de trois-quarts en avant, l’un des deux rubans de la couronne descendant sur l’épaule (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OP - SE. MAKRINOS - SE-B, (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 forme de couronne ; O dans le champ à gauche sous la couronne, buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Shamash à gauche entre les pattes de l’aigle.
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
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, soixante et onze exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés. Notre exemplaire, qui provient de la trouvaille dite de Jordanie 1930, est le 1004_056.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seventy-one examples are now listed. Our example, which comes from the so-called Jordan 1930 find, is 1004_056
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seventy-one examples are now listed. Our example, which comes from the so-called Jordan 1930 find, is 1004_056
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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