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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 2276774, member: 75936&quot;]Elagabalus has such a wide variety of affordable coins. I really need an Emesa stone chariot coin of his.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of the historicity of Elagabalus - a lot of the tales of depravity come from the unreliable Historia Augusta from the 4th century. I think of him as a misunderstood and maligned transgender youth. And really all that we know for sure about him is on his coins - eg the religious changes.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the topic of the Emesa stone cult of El Gabal, the pride of my collection is this Syrian issue of Uranius Antoninus:[ATTACH=full]454425[/ATTACH] </p><p>SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Emesa. Uranius Antoninus. Usurper, AD 253-254.</p><p>Æ (32mm, 16.75 g, 12h). Dated SE 565 (AD 253/4). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Baetyl of El–Gabal, decorated with eagle flanked by parasols, within hexastyle temple; crescent in pediment, ЄΞΦ (date) in exergue. </p><p>SNG Hunterian 3174 (same obv. die); BMC 24 (same obv. die)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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