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Author Topic: Caracalla or Elagabalus - Help  (Read 215 times)

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Offline Crassus

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Caracalla or Elagabalus - Help
« on: July 21, 2021, 08:42:23 pm »
Caracalla or Elagabalus, legenda of obverse: AV K M AVP ANTĪ©NINOC, coin from thessalonica, but I see very similar coins with same legend to Elagabalus and for Caracalla, can you help understand the diference, please?

24mm. - 7,1 grs

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Re: Caracalla or Elagabalus - Help
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2021, 09:36:34 pm »
Usually you can tell by the portrait...as here. Caracalla has more "manly/rugged" features while Elagabalus has "rounded" features. See it at;
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1647857
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