brm_726517 - MACRINUS Denier
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Type : Denier
Date: janvier - mars
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,25 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure régulière bien centré et recouvert d’une belle patine grise de collection ancienne
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Marc Opellius Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT PART P M TR P II COS II P P.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée avançant à droite, tenant une patère de la main gauche et une palme de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Partica Pontifex Maximus Tribonicia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriae”, (La Victoire partique grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunicienne, consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
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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