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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2335567, member: 19463&quot;]Ken&#039;s Caracalla reminds me that many new collectors have trouble separating coins of Caracalla from those of Elagabalus.&nbsp; His is, of course, 100% correct but if anyone here has hesitation in making this call, I have a page:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/car-elag.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was one of my earlier &#039;educational&#039; pages written in reaction to the number of coins I was seeing offered for sale misidentified.&nbsp; Hardest for many people are the fourth from the left below.</p><p>Six Coins of Caracalla</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/cec.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Rules 1, 3&nbsp; &nbsp; Rules 1, 4, 5&nbsp; Rules 1, 3&nbsp;&nbsp; Rule 3&nbsp;&nbsp; Rules 1, 2, 3 Rules 1, 2, 3</p><p>Eastern mint&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rome mint</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Six Coins of Elagabalus</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/cee.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Rules 3, 5&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rule 3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Rules 3, 5&nbsp; &nbsp; Rules 3, 5&nbsp; &nbsp; Rule 2, 5&nbsp;&nbsp; Rules 3, 5</p><p>Eastern mint&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Rome mint</p><p><br /></p><p>Copying the chart lost formatting so the above makes more sense on my page than here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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