bpv_706924 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Hiérapolis, Syrie, Cyrrhestica
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière, court sur les légendes. Beau buste de Macrin. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine de collection ancienne
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste de Macrin à droite, lauré et drapé, vu de trois-quarts en avant, les deux rubans pendant derrière la tête (A*01).
Obverse legend : AUT K. M. OPEL... SE. MAKREINOS SE, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Opellios Seuhros Makrinos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Opel Sévère Macrin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, ailes écartées, la tête et la queue à droite, tenant une couronne feuillée dans son bec ; entre les pattes, un lion passant à droite.
Reverse legend : DHMARC. EX. UPATOS
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, seize exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, sixteen examples are now listed
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, sixteen examples are now listed
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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