bpv_173767 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Séleucie, Syrie, Séleucie et Pierie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bon centrage mais nette usure
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Notre exemplaire, qui provient de la trouvaille dite de Jordanie 1930, est le 1189_006
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, les deux rubans de la couronne laurée descendant derrière la tête (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OP SE. MAKRINOS SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, les ailes déployées, la tête et la queue tournées à droite, couronne perlée dans le bec ; l'aigle a les serres posées sur le foudre de Zeus Kasios, celui-ci est sans poignée.
Reverse legend : DHMARC EX UPATO.
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, sept exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, dont trois en musées, Israel, Oxford et Londres.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seven examples are now listed, including three in museums, Israel, Oxford and London
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, seven examples are now listed, including three in museums, Israel, Oxford and London
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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