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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3099744, member: 36818&quot;]&quot;Ghost of Elagabalus&quot; got my attention! I like that ghostly clashed die. I don&#039;t have a clashed-die Elagabalus yet. Someday, hopefully!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my coin with horn, from the same issue as yours. We&#039;re attributing it a bit differently. You have RIC 52 var., and I have RIC 53 var. It depends on if you think he&#039;s holding a cypress branch or a club. Branch seems more likely to me, even if it can sometimes look like a club. I don&#039;t think there&#039;s a wrong answer, though, because nobody really knows.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]784336[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Elagabalus.</b> AR denarius, Rome, 222 CE; 2.51g. BMCRE 269 var. (large star), RIC IV 53 var. (without “horn”), RSC III 213c (large star). Obv: IMP ANTONINVS – PIVS AVG; laureate bust r., draped, seen from front, with “horn” over forehead, bearded. Rx: PM TR P V COS IIII P P; Elagabalus, standing half-l., sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar, holding branch (cypress?) upwards in l. hand; star in field l. EF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>ex Spink, London.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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