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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4277686, member: 51347&quot;]Very nice coin, [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER] , and you really found a nice horned version.</p><p><br /></p><p>This guy gives me the willies!&nbsp; I think 4 years was WAY too long for Rome to had tolerated this creep (and that family!), and they should had exterminated him much earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have two, <i>polled</i> versions.&nbsp; One as a placemarker from my progression of Roman Emperors (Kings).&nbsp; The other because of the cool Snake-Tripod Reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088616[/ATTACH]</p><p>RI Elagabalus 218-222 CE AR Antoninianus Radiate Roma seated</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1088617[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ancient Roman Provincial Coin</p><p>Bronze (AE18) of Elagabalus, A.D. 218-222</p><p>Thrace, Philippolis</p><p>Moushmov 5423. 18 mm, 4.3 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: AVT K MAYP ANTΩNINOC.</p><p>Reverse: [ΦIΛIΠ]ΠOΛITΩN NEΩKOPΩ[N] - Serpent entwined tripod (celebrating the Neokorus of the city along with a festival of Pythia)</p><p>Raised to be a priest of the Elagabalus (Baal) cult, Antoninus, known to history as Elagabalus, was 14 years old when he was brought to Rome by his grandmother to be emperor. His exotic Eastern influences and his flamboyant sexual escapades proved to be too much for conservative Roman society, and he was executed about the time of his eighteenth birthday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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