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Live auction - brm_467776 - MACRINUS Denier

MACRINUS Denier AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : 280 €
Maximum bid : 280 €
End of the sale : 06 March 2018 15:53:02
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Denier
Date: octobre - décembre
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,03 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Macrin. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1976 et provient du stock d’Art Antique (Dr. J. Lallemand)

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).

Commentary


Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3.

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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