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Offline ecoli

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Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« on: September 20, 2017, 12:05:47 pm »
Recently I finally completed a mini collection of women that were associated with Elabalus:  Grandma, Mom, and his three wives.

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2017, 12:12:09 pm »
"All the single ladies, all the single ladies! Wait what? Ah geez, lovely coins E  :) +++

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2017, 12:32:09 pm »
Nice. Especially Annia Faustina is hard to get.

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2017, 01:37:15 pm »
Great mini collection

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Congratulation

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2017, 01:50:00 pm »
While inspecting your nice set, a thought crossed my mind: maybe Aquilia should be represented by two coins, one for each of her marriages to Elagabalus, first before and then after Annia Faustina?

In that case, at Alexandria, you have Year 5 for her, that's her second marriage. You could add a Year 4 for her first marriage.

At Rome, most of Aquilia's coinage is from her first marriage: her two CONCORDIA types, with either Marriage scene (rare) or Concordia standing (comparatively common). Only her very rare LAETITIA standing type is from the time of her second marriage. It would take patience and good luck to acquire that type; it's probably almost as rare as a Rome-mint denarius or sestertius of Annia Faustina!
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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2017, 02:15:02 pm »
Thank you for the great information!  Here is my Concordia standing from AQS

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2017, 02:22:53 pm »
So you already have coins of both of her marriages: a denarius from her first marriage and an Alexandrian tetradrachm from her second.
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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2017, 11:30:50 pm »
A wonderful mini-colelction!

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Re: Ladies of Elagabalus (coins of the day)
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2017, 05:35:37 am »
Very nice!

 

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