v16_0581 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Laodicée, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,14 g.
Coments on the condition:
Portrait anguleux caractéristique de l’atelier
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est le 1180_090 de la base TSP
Obverse
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AUT K M OP SEOU MAKRINOS SEB, (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seouhros 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 ; une étoile entre les pattes de l’aigle.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. - EX. UPATOS PP, (Dhmarcikhs Ex Upatos Patri Patridos)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Autant on peut présumer que les graveurs des tétradrachmes syro-phéniciens étaient en général de culture artistique grecque, autant le style de Laodicée penche plutôt vers les Celtes.
While it can be assumed that the engravers of the Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms were generally of Greek artistic culture, the style of Laodicea leans more towards the Celts.
While it can be assumed that the engravers of the Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms were generally of Greek artistic culture, the style of Laodicea leans more towards the Celts.
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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