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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3041981, member: 51347&quot;]Just dawned on me:&nbsp; Yeah, you like snakes, and yeah, you like that BAD-BOY Elagabalus!</p><p><br /></p><p>How about BOTH on a coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you have seen this as I have posted before... but it is a snake and your Dream-Emperor:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]759427[/ATTACH] </p><p>RProv AE18mm 4.3g Elagabalus CE 218-222 Thrace Philippolis Moushmov 5423</p><p>Obverse: AVT K MAYP ANTΩNINOC.</p><p>Reverse: [ΦIΛIΠ]ΠOΛITΩN NEΩKOPΩ[N] - Serpent entwined tripod (celebrating the Neokorus of the city along with a festival of Pythia)</p><p>Raised to be a priest of the Elagabalus (Baal) cult, Antoninus, known to history as Elagabalus, was 14 years old when he was brought to Rome by his grandmother to be emperor. His exotic Eastern influences and his flamboyant sexual escapades proved to be too much for conservative Roman society, and he was executed about the time of his eighteenth birthday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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