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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6456522, member: 75937&quot;]I&#039;ve had this unexceptional little provincial for many years. I don&#039;t post it much because it&#039;s rather mundane in its subject matter and well ... it&#039;s not exactly FDC, either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I lost its provenance in a computer crash that happened some 15 years ago. It came from an eBay group lot and I couldn&#039;t find a reference for it until I asked for help here at CT a few years back, when [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] was kind enough to look it up in Varbanov on my behalf.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elagabalus-philippopolis-new-jpg.802525/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Elagabalus, AD 218-222.</p><p>Roman AE 19.0 mm, 3.12 g, 6 h.</p><p>Thrace, Philippopolis, AD 218-22.</p><p>Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ - ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟC, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟ / Ρ - ΩΝ, Hera standing left, holding patera and scepter.</p><p>Refs: Varbanov 1780; Sear --; Moushmov --; BMC --; SNG Cop --; Lindgren II --; Lindgren III --.</p><p>Notes: Philippopolis became a Neocorate city during the reign of Elagabalus.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this little coin could sing, it would sing about being overlooked and unnoticed compared to the Athenian Owls and Julius Caesar elephant denarii of the world. It would sing something like this old tune:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]VMUz2TNMvL0[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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