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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3945189, member: 72790"]Now here's an oddball empress, Aquilia Severa and married to an oddball emperor if there ever was one, the sun worshipping Elagabalus, who would discover that the Roman people had a limit to what they would put up with in an emperor. Perhaps I am being unfair to the empress calling her an oddball. Maybe unfortunate would be a better term. Before catching the attention of Elagabalus Aquilia was safely ensconced in the ranks of the Vestal Virgins. Being an emperor had privileges and Aquilia was removed from the House of the Vestals and married to the emperor. The marriage was a notably brief one, hence the scarcity of her coinage. Elagabalus divorced her and married again, but in an odd twist of fate, Elagabalus divorced that wife and took up again with Aquilia. After his sudden demise not only did Elagabalus disappear but so did Aquilia who is never heard from or about again. The coin below is a  brass dichalchon of 13.3 grams with Latin legends. Obv. is AQUILIA SEVERA AUG and reverse is TURIORUM as it was issued in Tyre, probably around 220 AD. The strange design on the reverse is woven basket, serving as an urn, from which projects a palm stalk. Just about everything on this coin seems unusual.[ATTACH=full]1039774[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1039775[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]