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Moesia inferior, Markianopolis, Elagabal, HrJ 6.26.35.5 var.
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Elagabal, AD 218-222
AE 26, 9.94g, 26.32mm, 180°
struck under governor Iulius Antonius Seleucus
obv. AVT KM AVRH. - ANTWNEINOC AVG (AVG ligate)
Bust, cuirassed, wearing scale armor, laureate, r.
rev. VP IOVL ANT CELEVCOV MARKIANOPOLITWN (both OV and AR ligate)
Nemesis, in long girdled double chiton, stg. facing, head l., holding in l. arm
measuring rod and puff of garment and in outstretched r. hand scales; at feet
l. the wheel.
ref. a) AMNG I/1, 841 (1 ex. in Paris)
b) not in Varbanov (engl.)
c) Hristova/Jekov No.6.26.35.5 var. (has bust draped and cuirassed)
very rare, VF
The rod here has a hook at its upper end. Pick writes: Sometimes the rod has a knot or spines and can't be called a cubit; perhaps it should be an instrument of penalization like a whip. I think it is a goad!
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