E-Auction 47 Lot 124

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E-Auction 47 Lot 124

Macrinus. A.D. 217-218. AR denarius. 3.17 gm. 20 mm. Rome mint. His laureate and cuirassed bust right; IMP C M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG / Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P. RIC IV.2 15. RSC 55a. Mint State; lightly iridescent tone; well centered and crisply struck on even round flan. Choice.

Marcus Opellius Macrinus was born in Caesarea in Mauretania of Berber origin. He was a member of the equestrian class, the first Roman emperor who did not come from the senatorial class, and the first Roman emperor to never visit the Eternal City during his reign. He served Septimius Severus as a lawyer and bureaucrat, then Caracalla as his Praetorian Guard prefect.

A prophesy that he would depose and succeed Caracalla as emperor led to the young emperor’s paranoia, and Macrinus, fearing for his own survival, had Caracalla stabbed to death. Caracalla's wealthy and scheming aunt Julia Maesa bought the allegiance of Legio III Galicia, who proclaimed her 14-year-old grandson Elagabalus, chief priest of the Phoenician sun-god, as emperor. Macrinus and his son Diadumenian were killed.

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