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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3940535, member: 91461&quot;]Io Saturnalia!!!</p><p>Very humbled and appreciative of the kindness of my SS. It is a lovely type of a coin I&#039;ve lost at auction on four different occasions. They certainly did their sleuthing well.</p><p>I do wonder if part of the reason the type is so hard to get is because of CT. A&nbsp; CT member (no pun intended) mentioned the study of a single individual proposing that this image is of Elagabalus, one of the most notorious rulers of all time, wearing a bulls phallus on his head. Probably not true IMHO. But making it highly and hilariously desirable.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1038724[/ATTACH]</p><p>ELAGABALUS&quot; (16/05 / 218-12 / 03/222)</p><p>Marcus Aurelius Antoninus</p><p>Denarius 222 CE, Mint Rome 19mm, 12h.</p><p>2.76 gr. Degree of rarity: R1</p><p>RCV.7518 - RIC.88 var. - Th.258 - RSC.61 b - RCV.7518</p><p>Obverse: IMP ANTONINVS - PIVS AVG. Bearded bust, laureate and draped Elagabal right, seen three quarters forward, horned (A * 01).Elke Kringel hypothesised the &quot;horn&quot; is actually a bulls phallus!</p><p>Reverse: INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG / * | -. (The Invincible Priest of the Emperor).</p><p>Elagabal laureate and draper standing upright turned left, holding a cypress branch turned upwards with the left hand and a peg with his right hand, sacrificing above an altar lit; Behind the altar, the remains of the ox.</p><p>History: Elagabal, proclaimed Emperor May 16, 218, only august before the end of June or early July, leaves Syria to reach Rome. Elagabal stops at Nicomedia, he stays there all winter and gets sick. It is in this city that he dons his second consulate. Elagabal will not arrive in Rome until July or September 219, bringing the black stone of his cult to install it in his capital. He will never return to Syria, quickly murdered after a reign unequaled in turpitudes and disturbances.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the wonderfully written and Kind letter my SS wrote they let me know who they were Which was very cool to know (I still don&#039;t know who last years SS was??).</p><p>Thanks again to my secret Saturn!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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