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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP77896
Elagabalus and Julia Maesa, 16 May 218 - 11 March 222 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Elagabalus| |and| |Julia| |Maesa,| |16| |May| |218| |-| |11| |March| |222| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, After her nephew Caracalla was murdered, Julia Maesa successfully used her ample funds to plot the overthrow the usurper Macrinus and place her grandson Elagabalus on the throne. The teenager was a disaster as emperor, scorning Roman values with religious and sexual scandals. She cleverly convinced Elagabalus to adopt her other grandson, Alexander, as his heir. Shortly after Elagabalus and his mother were murdered by the Praetorian Guard, dragged through the streets and thrown into the Tiber. Through it all, Maesa held the power behind the throne.
RP77896. Bronze pentassarion, H-J Marcianopolis 6.28.1.2 (R6, same dies), Varbanov I 1661 corr. (R5, same dies), AMNG I/I 949, Moushmov 667, BMC Thrace -, SNG Cop -, aVF, dark near black patina, some light corrosion, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 10.145g, maximum diameter 27.4mm, die axis 0o, cos. legate Julius Antonius Seleucus, 218 - 222; obverse AVT K M AVP ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ IOVΛIA MAICA AVΓ, confronting busts of Elagabalus, on left, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Julia Maesa, on right, diademed and wearing stephane; reverse VΠ IOVΛ ANT CEΛEVKOV MAPKIANOΠOΛIT,ΩN (OV's ligate, last two letters ligate and below mark of value), Bonus Eventus standing half left, head left, nude, patera in extended right hand, two stalks of grain downward in left hand, E (reversed, mark of value) in left field; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren, ex Colosseum Coin Exchange; scarce; SOLD










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