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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBGood, post: 2318086, member: 38987&quot;]I don&#039;t know why I keep buying these type coins. I&#039;m a sucker for a &quot;sandy patina&quot; even though there is a reasonable chance that the patina comes from Max Factor. But, I do like the way it looks! AND, I don&#039;t have any other coins where &quot;Europa is riding a bull with veil billowing&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus the big E story is pretty crazy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;... Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He replaced the traditional head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology" rel="nofollow">Roman pantheon</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Jupiter</a>, with the deity of whom he was high priest, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus_(deity)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus_(deity)" rel="nofollow">Elagabal</a>. He forced leading members of Rome&#039;s government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, over which he personally presided. Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favours on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace. His behavior estranged the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" rel="nofollow">Praetorian Guard</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate" rel="nofollow">Senate</a>, and the common people alike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Severus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Severus" rel="nofollow">Alexander Severus</a> on 11 March 222, in a plot formulated by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.&quot;-wiki</p><p><br /></p><p>Whats not to like?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]468050[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Phoenicia, Sidon. Elagabalus. A.D. 218-222. AE 24 (24.1 mm, 9.95 g, 6 h). IM C M A ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / A-P / SID CO / METR, Europa riding bull right, veil billowing above. BMC 234; SNG Cop 259. Fine, sandy red patina.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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