E-auction 698-758547 - 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 : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré , mais court sur les légendes, en particulier au revers. Belle tête de Macrin. Frappe un peu brouillée au revers. Patine gris métallique
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 SEB, (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 ; buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Shamash à gauche entre les pattes de l’aigle, devant Shamash, un croissant, pointes tournées vers la gauche.
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
Poids lourd. Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, dix exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés, aucun en musée.
Heavy weights. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, ten examples are now listed, none in a museum
Heavy weights. In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, ten examples are now listed, none in a museum
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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