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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 7873814, member: 83845&quot;]Nice coin [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] ! I like the dark toning. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the kind words SA. I was extremely pleased to get this coin from AMCC 3. It’s been a coin type on my list for a long time. </p><p><br /></p><p>I actually saw that “horn at feet” listed on the description of the coin from my OP and remember thinking that if that were true Elagabalus must have REALLY been into horns for some reason. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not very good at distinguishing between some busts that are draped and the ones that are draped and cuirassed unless the cuirass details are very obvious. Yours is one that I would have trouble deciding. Are you sure it is not just a draped bust (5b)?&nbsp; That would make it RIC 111 which does show a bearded portrait. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coins HWE!&nbsp; I especially like the snake in a box <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever his faults actually were Elagabalus, seems to not have been a very conscientious emperor. When I read the accounts in the primary sources I got the impression the authors were using the wild sexual stories (whether true or not) to make a statement about the fear of living under someone with absolute power who had no self control. I think it’s not by accident that Dio talks about all the people Elagabalus had killed just before he starts talking about his crazy antics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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