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Author Topic: Help with this provincial please--Elagabalus or Caracalla  (Read 251 times)

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Offline Charles M

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Help with this provincial please--Elagabalus or Caracalla
« on: October 15, 2018, 10:32:31 pm »
This is probably Caracalla but could be Elagabalus.   I'm also stumped on the city.  Any help greatly appreciated.

26 mm, 11.10 gms
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Offline Mark Fox

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Re: Help with this provincial please--Elagabalus or Caracalla
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2018, 12:18:19 am »
Dear Charles M & Board,

The spelling of the ethnic can indeed throw someone expecting to see something different, but the coin happens to be an issue of Anchialus in Thrace, struck for Caracalla as you suspected.  Here is a nearly identical example, except for the possibly different arrangement of the reverse legend:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1315022

Hope this helps (and a handsome coin, by the way)!

 
Best regards,

Mark Fox
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