bpv_748839 - MACRINUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 217-218
Mint name / Town : Carrhae, Mésopotamie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, centré, court sur la légende de droit à l’usure régulière. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés, légèrement granuleuse et piquée
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Obverse
Obverse description : Tête radiée de Macrin à droite, vu de trois-quarts en arrière, un ruban de la couronne radiée descendant sur l’épaule (O01).
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 gauche, les ailes déployées, la tête et la queue tournées à droite, tenant dans son bec une couronne feuillée ; une étoile flamboyante dans le champ à gauche de la tête de l’aigle ; un croissant pointe en l’air entre les pattes, deux points à l’exergue.
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, quatorze exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés dont en musées Paris et Berne.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, fourteen examples are now listed, including in museums in Paris and Berne.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, fourteen examples are now listed, including in museums in Paris and Berne.
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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