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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3451706, member: 74834&quot;]Last week I was very happy in acquiring a number of nice Roman Provincial coins (et alii - I overspent, doctor said I *might* have an obsession). This was the one I really went for, because of its fine portrait. A sad emperor who came to power in the most difficult circumstances. </p><p><br /></p><p>He never reached Rome, rather stayed based in Antioch for the whole of his reign. Macrinus ignominiously lost battles, freedom and life after a mere 14 months - not to mention his son and caesar Diadumenian, a ten-year-old who was executed some days before his father. The sad and graphic story of his last days <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antioch_(218)#Aftermath" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antioch_(218)#Aftermath" rel="nofollow">is here</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>AE Phoenicia, Tyre, Macrinus, 217-218, Laureate bust r. Rev. Temple of the Phoenician Koinon seen in perspective, murex shell to the right. COENT… / NA. 25 mm, 7.10 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]917355[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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