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Æ23 - Macrinus C G I H PA
| Issuer | Parium (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 217-218 |
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| Weight | 6.74 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (217-218) |
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Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being defeated by the forces of Elagabalus at the Battle of Antioch in June 218 AD, making any civic bronze struck in his name genuinely short-lived in production. Parium, the ancient Greek colony on the Propontis refounded as a Roman colony under Julius Caesar, was an active local mint throughout the Severan period and into this brief reign.
The colonial abbreviation C G I H PA — Colonia Gemella Iulia Hadriana Pariana — reflects the city's accumulated honorifics, including the Hadrianic addition that distinguished it from earlier Caesarean foundation titles.