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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2830730, member: 56859&quot;]Very nice!&nbsp; I have this Diocletian Athena reverse for RY 3 and 8 but can&#039;t find images right now.&nbsp; Hmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, here&#039;s a new pickup I hadn&#039;t shown, a marriage issue of Elagabalus and... Aquilia Severa?&nbsp; That&#039;s what the auctioneer says but I didn&#039;t think the exact dates of his marriages was well documented.&nbsp; By my reckoning during his 4th regnal year (~29 August 220 - 28 August 221) he was in three marriages:&nbsp; Julia Paula, then Vestal Virgin Aqulia Severa (briefly), and then Annia Faustina.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to dig through bios and contemporary histories to see if the dates are more definite, allowing definitive identification of the empress.&nbsp; Aquilia Severa seems a good bet with that time frame, and maybe he wanted to publicize the marriage, which he may have viewed as symbolic.&nbsp; On the other hand, maybe that same argument is stronger for this being Annia Faustina, to whom he was quickly married after the brief first marriage to the Virgin.&nbsp; Maybe his handlers wanted to do some damage control by publicizing his marriage to Annia Faustina?&nbsp; Meh... probably overthinking this.&nbsp; How would the public know which woman was represented by the indistinct and unnamed figure?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]667156[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Elagabalus</b></p><p>Regnal year 4, CE 220/1</p><p>tetradrachm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; Bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Elagabalus standing left, lovingly clasping hands with his wife; both holding sceptres; L - Δ&nbsp; across fields</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Emmett 2929.4 (R4);&nbsp; Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4098[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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