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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2444383, member: 57495&quot;]Congrats, nice coin!&nbsp; I have to wonder about this though.&nbsp; This issue was struck under Septimius, and Caracalla was only 12 or 13.&nbsp; Why would the assumption be that he was being depicted as Sol?&nbsp; Also, Sol is typically shown radiate, and on the OP coin, the figure looks laureate to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>If there were an emperor who saw himself as a sun god, and RECTOR ORBIS at that, I would think it would be Elagabalus, as on this aureus:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1157086" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1157086" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1157086</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Even there, though, the figure is shown laureate.&nbsp; Does the &quot;Caracalla as Sol&quot; description refer to another issue, perhaps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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