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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8245790, member: 91461&quot;]Good things DO happen to good people<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It was a rush waiting for it to get to you<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>But, like Mick and the boys said, it&#039;s always worth:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MKLVmBOOqVU[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of the type, I must admit that I don&#039;t recall seeing any Severus Alexander coins of him repping the Elagabale stone and am perplexed by this as they were cousins... in theory<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Was this by design, to shake off the strange eastern religious beliefs that had alarmed Rome under Elagabalus?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452093[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Actual footage of [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] returning from his mailbox)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though not in silver, mine shows another view of the cart and stone:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452084[/ATTACH] </p><p>Elagabalus</p><p>AE29, 218-222 CE Phoenicia, Tyre mint. Obv: IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS legend with laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: AVR PIA [SID COL MET] legend with two-wheeled cult cart of Astarte right, with roof on four columns, two palms emerging from it; holy stone (baetyl) from Sidon within. 18.51 grams. Good.</p><p>Provenance</p><p>Ex Marlow&#039;s Auction; from an old UK collection prior to 2000; with old collector&#039;s ticket.</p><p>SNG Cop. 255. purchased from Timeline Auctions December 2021</p><p><br /></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[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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