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Author Topic: Help with attribution please--Elagabalus??  (Read 786 times)

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Offline Charles M

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Help with attribution please--Elagabalus??
« on: March 09, 2019, 05:36:30 pm »
I could use some help with this coin.  I believe it's Elagabalus.  My photos are not good.  I have not yet perfected taking photos of vry dark coins such as this one.  My reading of the obverse legend is based on looking under magnification at various angles.  I can read none of the reverse legend.

OBV:  AVP MA ? ANT- :Greek_Omega:NINOCC.  laureate draped and  cuirassed bust right, seen from rear
REV:  Male ?) figure wearing short chiton, right hand resting on scepter, uncertain object in left hand,  all within laurel wreath

25 mm, 14.50 grams (very thick flan)

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Re: Help with attribution please--Elagabalus??
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2019, 05:48:58 pm »
Difficult. From the portrait Elagabal is possible. But Severus Alexander too. The rev. look like Herakles with club and lion's skin.

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