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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3651268, member: 99456"]To start with a side-track, this coin was sold to me as an ANACS certified Caracalla - so, the recognizable "horn", if not the portrait overall, seems a bit surprising.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, relevant to [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]'s request, the more common variants have no standards or one standard - I don't have the more common variants. With two standards there is also a variant with club instead of branch - although I'm not too sure about what he is holding in his left hand. On other coins the club is very clear. Finding this particular coin with branch instead of club not easy in auction databases.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]980842[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Elagabalus </b>(218-222), AR Denarius, Rome, AD 221</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG, laureate, horned, cuirassed and draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>P M TR P IIII COS - III P P, emperor standing left, sacrificing out of patera over altar and holding branch on left, star above patera on his right, two standards on his left</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next:</b> another Antoninianus with emperor sacrificing[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3651268, member: 99456"]To start with a side-track, this coin was sold to me as an ANACS certified Caracalla - so, the recognizable "horn", if not the portrait overall, seems a bit surprising. Next, relevant to [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]'s request, the more common variants have no standards or one standard - I don't have the more common variants. With two standards there is also a variant with club instead of branch - although I'm not too sure about what he is holding in his left hand. On other coins the club is very clear. Finding this particular coin with branch instead of club not easy in auction databases. [ATTACH=full]980842[/ATTACH] [B]Elagabalus [/B](218-222), AR Denarius, Rome, AD 221 [B]Obv:[/B] IMP ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG, laureate, horned, cuirassed and draped bust right [B]Rev: [/B]P M TR P IIII COS - III P P, emperor standing left, sacrificing out of patera over altar and holding branch on left, star above patera on his right, two standards on his left [B]Next:[/B] another Antoninianus with emperor sacrificing[/QUOTE]
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