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bpv_158446 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien

MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Carrhae, Mésopotamie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et léger décentrement au revers qui exclut la fin de la légende. Faible usure, patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire, qui provient des plateaux de Spink, en 1989, est le 0827_004 de la base TSP

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Macrin à droite, l’un des rubans de la couronne de laurier descendant sur le cou, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OP. SE. MAKRINOS SE, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées, la tête tournée à droite, la queue à gauche, tenant dans son bec une couronne feuillue ; un bucrane entouré d’un point de chaque côté, entre les pattes de l’aigle qui appuie ses serres sur les longues cornes.
Reverse legend : DHMA[RC. EX] -UPATOS., (Dhmarrcikhs Eq Ousias Upatos).
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).

Commentary


Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, seize exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont seulement deux en musées à Doura/Yale.

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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