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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2693742, member: 74834&quot;]A sad emperor, squeezed between ruthless Caracalla, with whose death he may have had nothing to do, and swollen-headed boy priest Elagabal, who 14 year old received a whole empire from his grandmother Iulia Maesa. </p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus had to consent in an unfavorable peace with the Parthians. He put his son Diadumenianus on the throne as Caesar, but in a year lost it all against Caracalla&#039;s female family with Elagabal as a figurehead. Macrinus never in his reign made it to Rome. He was grabbed while on the refuge and executed, and so was young Diadumenianus. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a nice pentassarion from Marcianopolis (now in Bulgaria), 26 mm, 12.17 gr., once in the collection of the Money Museum in Zurich, but now happily cushioned in mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604828[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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