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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3008488, member: 36818&quot;]I recently discovered (to my surprise) that one of my coins is a plate coin from Thirion:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]745717[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Elagabalus. </b>Æ as, Rome 218–22 CE. 11.66g, 28mm, 6h. BMCRE 371 (pl. 94.9), C 118 (12 francs), RIC 365, Thirion 294 (R2) (this coin). Obv: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG; laureate bust right, draped and cuirassed. Rx: MVNIFICENTIA AVG / S C in exergue; elephant, cuirassed, walking right, star above. Rare. Green patina with some pitting on portrait, reverse slightly double struck; EF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Hannelore Scheiner Collection</i></p><p><i>ex <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/monnaies-grecques-monnaies-romaines-consulaires-imperiales-et-byzantines-provenant-des-collections-m-le-colonel-rh-morcom-de-bromsgrove-feu-m-le-rev-aw-hands-de-londres-m-julius-wertheim-de-berlin-et-de-deux-autres-collections-dont-la-vente-privee-aux-encheres-aura-lieu-le-8-fevrier-1928-et-jours-suivants-a-10-heures-au-bureau-et-sous-la-direction-de-rodolfo-ratto-lugano-suisse-villa-ginevra-a-besso/oclc/11653933&amp;referer=brief_results" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/monnaies-grecques-monnaies-romaines-consulaires-imperiales-et-byzantines-provenant-des-collections-m-le-colonel-rh-morcom-de-bromsgrove-feu-m-le-rev-aw-hands-de-londres-m-julius-wertheim-de-berlin-et-de-deux-autres-collections-dont-la-vente-privee-aux-encheres-aura-lieu-le-8-fevrier-1928-et-jours-suivants-a-10-heures-au-bureau-et-sous-la-direction-de-rodolfo-ratto-lugano-suisse-villa-ginevra-a-besso/oclc/11653933&amp;referer=brief_results" rel="nofollow">Rodolfo Ratto Sale</a> (Lugano), 8 February 1928, lot 3607</i></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Reference:</u></p><p>Thirion, Marcel, <i>Le Monnayage D’Elagabale (218–222)</i> (Brussels, 1968), no 294 (this coin illustrated).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]745719[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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