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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2743134, member: 80783&quot;]Thanks everybody for your beautiful contributions!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I will take this one as an exception and stick to my old field otherwise or I will go bankrupt soon <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You have a point there - I got my first Elagabalus Sestertius (pictured below) because it was&nbsp; brassy and affordable. On the other hand, it is also rusty and crusty which was OK then but started to bother me now that I try to raise my standards a little.</p><p>I think there is a visible improvement in my collection with the OP coin despite it´s patina <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wonderful Denarius! My second Sestertius of Elagabalus (seemingly one of his latest emissions) has a similar sacrifice scene on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]626636[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG / INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG S C</p><p>Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right, seen from the front, wearing a short beard and a &quot;horn&quot; /&nbsp; Elagabalus, in priestly robes, standing left, holding club in left arm and patera in right hand, sacrificing out of patera over lighted and garlanded altar, with sacrificial bull lying behind base of altar</p><p>Sestertius, Rome 221/22</p><p>RIC 350, Cohen 64, BMCRE 350 var., Sear 7564, Banti 9 var.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]626637[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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