bpv_641371 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,19 g.
Rarity : R1
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B*4).
Obverse legend : AU K M OPPE SEU -MAKRINOS, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Oppelios Seuhros Makrinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).
Reverse
Reverse description : Niké (la Victoire) debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche, appuyée sur une colonne.
Reverse legend : UP STA LONGINOU NIKOPOLITWN PROS IS, (Upatewn statiou longinou Nikopolitwn Pros Istron).
Reverse translation : (Magistrat Statius Longinus Nicopolis près d’Istros).
Commentary
Poids léger. Portrait inhabituel avec une cuirasse recouverte d’écailles. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov, I, p. 290, n° 3463.
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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