Elagabalus AE26 Tetrassarion of Marcianopolis.

AVT K M AVP H LI ANTWNEINOC, laureate head right,

VP IOVL ANT CELEVKOV MAPKIANOPOLITWN, Victory advancing left,

Issued under the Consular Legate Julius Antonius Seleucus, Governor of Moesia between AD218-222. A 5th century historian Polemius Silvius, mentions a usurper by the name of Seleucus during Elagabal's reign. Whether or not this usurper is our Legate or another Consul (AD 221) by the name of M. Flavius Vitellius Seleucus, is unknown. What is known is that Seleucus was succeeded by Sergius Titianus in AD 222, the year of Elagabal's murder.

AMNG Vol.I No.824, Pg.254

ex-Gitbud & Naumann Münzhandlung München

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slokind

[May 08, 2011 at 07:49 PM]

This one, with a full-length signature of Seleukos, is surely a tetrassarion, or (perhaps better until you give diameters and weights, and learn the system of the -assarion terms, just give the diameter). The specimen listed by Pick AMNG I,1, p. 254, no. 824, Pl. XVI, 9 is 25mm diameter and weighs 9.30g. A Moushmov no. is, of course, useless and often even misleading. The coin is nice, though.

Will Hooton

[May 08, 2011 at 09:51 PM]

Thank you Pat! I make mine 26mm, and I will set about revising my references in due course, beginning by removing Moushmov.

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