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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Edessa, post: 3373479, member: 84065&quot;]Curtis Clay explained in previous FORVM posts that we have several examples of reverse dies of Elagabalus that have been altered to move the star from behind the emperor to in front of the emperor. To quote: &quot;The <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=star" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=star" rel="nofollow">star</a> apparently stood for <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=his" rel="nofollow">his</a> sun god, to whom the emperor was depicted sacrificing, and therefore it should have been placed before him...&quot;.&nbsp; Mint officials were paying attention to the placement of the star, which makes this coin odd.&nbsp; When I see such odd coins my first assumption is that this might not be a production of an official mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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