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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4662264, member: 85693&quot;]Elagabalus&#039;s teenaged first wife (and my first coin of hers), Julia Paula. </p><p><br /></p><p>FORVM&#039;s reprint of Stevenson&#039;s <i>Dictionary of Roman Coins</i> has an amusing take on this marriage - that &quot;odious miscreant&quot; husband of hers:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Julia Cornelia Paula, said to be the daughter of Paulus, praetorian prefect, was the first wife of Elagabalus having been married to that odious miscreant A.D. 219.—Divorced shortly after her nuptials, on some pretence of bodily defect, she died in retirement.—Her gold coins are of the highest rarity, silver by no means scarce...&quot;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Julia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Julia" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Julia</a> Paula</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1150098[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julia Paula&nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(First wife of Elagabalus)</b></p><p><b>(219-220 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right / CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, patera in right hand, left elbow rests on arm of throne, star in left field.</p><p>RIC IV (Elagabalus) 211.</p><p>(2.81 grams / 18 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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