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A bronze coin of Elagabalus from Hippos-Susita in the Decapolis, Syria, showing Pegasus Coin Type: Holed bronze AE24 of Elagabalus, 218-222 CE.
Mint and Date: Hippos-Susita (aka Antiocha ad Hippum), Dekapolis, Syria; 327-328 CE
Size and Weight: 22mm x 24mm, 11.21g
Obverse: [Legend not visible]
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: [Legend not visible]
Pegasos standing left, wings spread, head reverted.
Ref: Meshorer 204 (laureate); cf. Spijkerman p. 178, 38; and SNG ANS 1150; both radiate
Provenance: tgorani (eBay), July 2009
BW Ref: 039 041 142
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Note: The best match I can find for this coin is the example in Coin Archives here [Link made inaccessible by Coin Archives in July 2009], from Heritage World Coin Auctions, Long Beach Signature Sale 357, lot no. 12117. But this coin has a laureate head on the obverse, unlike the auction coin, so must be the Meshorer coin referenced.

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