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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Macrianus| > SH57022
Macrianus, Summer 260 - Early Summer 261 A.D.
|Macrianus|, |Macrianus,| |Summer| |260| |-| |Early| |Summer| |261| |A.D.|, Jupiter or Jove, Zeus to the Greeks, was the king of the gods and god of the sky and thunder, and of laws and social order. As the patron deity of ancient Rome, he was the chief god of the Capitoline Triad, with his sister and wife Juno. The father of Mars, he is, therefore, the grandfather of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome. Emperors frequently made vows to Jupiter for protection. The Roman's believed as the king of the gods, Jupiter favored emperors and kings, those in positions of authority similar to his own.
SH57022. Silvered antoninianus, RIC V-2 9 (R2), RSC IV 8, SRCV III 10803, Hunter - (p. lxxv), F, uncertain Syrian mint, weight 3.441g, maximum diameter 21.3mm, die axis 45o, summer 260 - early summer 261 A.D.; obverse IMP C FVL MACRIANVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse IOVI CONSERVATORI (to Jupiter the protector), Jupiter seated left, patera in extended right hand, scepter in left hand, eagle at feet; rare; SOLD




  






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Huvelin, H. "L'atelier d'Antioche sous Claude II" in NAC XIX (1990), pp. 251-271.
McAlee, R. The Coins of Roman Antioch. (Lancaster, PA, 2007).
Prieur, M. & K. Prieur. The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and their fractions from 57 BC to AD 258. (Lancaster, PA, 2000).
Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in Numismatic Chronicle 1993, pp. 65 - 75, pl. 11.

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