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brm_153586 - MACRINUS Sesterce

MACRINUS Sesterce AU
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Price : 2 500.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 218
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan extrêmement large et ovale, éclaté à 10 heures au revers. Portrait légèrement tréflé de toute beauté. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé. Au droit, le champ a été gratté

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP CAES M OPEL SEV - MACRINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Apellius Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA DEORVM.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant un bâton de la main droite au-dessus d'un globe et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence divine).

Commentary


Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel sur un flan de “médaillon”.

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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