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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 2996285, member: 36818&quot;]I received my first coin of 2018 a couple of weeks ago, but just finally got around to photographing it. I thought it would be interesting to post the seller&#039;s image of the coin below my own image for comparison. I was pleasantly surprised when I received the coin to discover that it isn&#039;t actually fluorescent. It really wouldn&#039;t go well with the others. Also, my image isn&#039;t out of focus; the surface of the coin really looks like that. The seller&#039;s image is extremely over-sharpened.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a little pit on the reverse below the patera with some green stuff in it. Lately there have been several threads about bronze disease. Inspired by these, I tried to scrape off some of the green with the end of a Q-Tip, but despite several tries I did not see any powdery residue on the cotton. I&#039;m thinking that it&#039;s stable.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]740270[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]740277[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Elagabalus.</b> Æ as, Rome mint, struck 221 CE. 10.52g, 24mm, 11h. BMCRE 449 var. (bust without horn), C 203 var. (bull behind altar), RIC 330 var. (S) (same), Thirion 179 var (R3) (star right). Obv: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG; laureate bust, draped, seen from the front, with “horn” over forehead, bearded. Rx: PM TR P IIII COS III P P / S | C in field; Elagabalus, standing half-left, sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar, holding branch (cypress?) upwards in left hand; star in field left. Very rare. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Prof. Dr. Hildebrecht Hommel Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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