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<p>[QUOTE="benhur767, post: 3261479, member: 36818"]Great history and coins, [USER=75641]@nicholasz219[/USER]. Thanks! My only Marcianopolis coin is not in great shape, but a rarity:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]858049[/ATTACH] <b>Elagabalus and Julia Maesa.</b> Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, minted under Legate (Governor) Julius Antonius Seleucus, ca. 220-221 CE. Æ Pentassarion (30mm, 13.57g, 12h). Julius Antonius Seleucus, legatus consularis. Æ27, 11.09g. Moushmov 682, Varbanov 1638 (R5), Zhekov/Jekov 6.28.39.1 (R6), P.R. 969, H.M. 682. Obv: AVT K M AVΡH ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ IOVΛIA MAICA AVΓ; laureate head of Elagabalus r., facing diademed and draped bust of Maesa l. Rx: VΠ • IOVΛ ANT • CEΛE – VKOV MAΡKIANOΠOΛI / TΩN in exergue; Liberalitas standing l., holding coin counter and cornucopia; in field r., Є. Very rare. F.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is a die duplicate of an example found at <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/elagabaluscoins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sites.google.com/site/elagabaluscoins/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/elagabaluscoins/</a> (author unidentified); however, the reverse type of that coin is misdescribed as Libertas (rather than the correct Liberalitas), and the obverse head of Elagabalus is misdescribed as bust, draped and cuirassed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="benhur767, post: 3261479, member: 36818"]Great history and coins, [USER=75641]@nicholasz219[/USER]. Thanks! My only Marcianopolis coin is not in great shape, but a rarity: [ATTACH=full]858049[/ATTACH] [B]Elagabalus and Julia Maesa.[/B] Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, minted under Legate (Governor) Julius Antonius Seleucus, ca. 220-221 CE. Æ Pentassarion (30mm, 13.57g, 12h). Julius Antonius Seleucus, legatus consularis. Æ27, 11.09g. Moushmov 682, Varbanov 1638 (R5), Zhekov/Jekov 6.28.39.1 (R6), P.R. 969, H.M. 682. Obv: AVT K M AVΡH ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ IOVΛIA MAICA AVΓ; laureate head of Elagabalus r., facing diademed and draped bust of Maesa l. Rx: VΠ • IOVΛ ANT • CEΛE – VKOV MAΡKIANOΠOΛI / TΩN in exergue; Liberalitas standing l., holding coin counter and cornucopia; in field r., Є. Very rare. F. This coin is a die duplicate of an example found at [url]https://sites.google.com/site/elagabaluscoins/[/url] (author unidentified); however, the reverse type of that coin is misdescribed as Libertas (rather than the correct Liberalitas), and the obverse head of Elagabalus is misdescribed as bust, draped and cuirassed.[/QUOTE]
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