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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7998886, member: 115909&quot;]Apparently yesterday was my lucky day because I won not one, not two, but <i>three </i>denarii at auction when normally I consider it a good day if I win just one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I already shared the Lucilla denarius I won but at the time I didn’t know that I also won this pretty sweet Elagabalus:</p><p><br /></p><p>(If you zoom in it kinda looks like he has a swollen black eye or something)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1387604[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1387605[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Elagabalus (AD 218-222). AR denarius (19mm, 2.86 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5</b> Rome, AD 222. IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / PAX-AVGVSTI, Pax advancing left, with branch in right hand, scepter in left. RIC IV.II 125.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately for me I’m quickly getting to a period in Roman history where the denarius was replaced almost entirely by the antoninianus so I’ll have to start working backwards from Domitian but it’s nice to see my collection grow month by month <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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