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brm_566984 - MACRINUS Denier

MACRINUS Denier AU/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 275.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: octobre - décembre
Date: 217
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Superbe revers de style fin. Joli buste à l’usure superficielle. Patine grise
Catalogue references :

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 : SECVRITAS - TEMPORVM.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) debout à gauche, appuyée sur son bras gauche reposant sur une colonne et tenant un sceptre long de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Temporum”, (La Sécurité du temps).

Commentary


Sur cet exemplaire le buste est seulement cuirassé et la barbe longue.

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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