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v43_0487 - MACRINUS Tetrassaria

MACRINUS Tetrassaria XF
XF
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 110.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 125.00 €
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, légèrement décentré au droit sur la légende. Très beau portrait. Revers intéressant. Très jolie patine vert olive profond
Catalogue references :
SNG/H.-  - AMNG. 1/1692  - Varbonov3394
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du catalogue Antike Numismatik 41 (2003), n° 761

Obverse

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Macrin à droite (O*).
Obverse legend : AU K M OPPE SE-U MA[KREINOS], (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Oppelios Seuhros Makrinos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin).

Reverse

Reverse description : Hermès (Mercure) nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, un coq à gauche.
Reverse legend : UP AGRIPPA NI-KOPOLITWN PROS// IST(Upatewn Markos Agrippa Nikopolitwn Pros Istron).
Reverse translation : (Magistrat (Marc) Agrippa Nicopolis près d’Istros).

Commentary

Trou de centrage, visible de chaque côté. Rubans de type 1. Très beau buste.

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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