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A provincial bronze coin of the emperor Elagabalus from Markianopolis, with a reverse showing Hermes Coin Type: Bronze pentassarion of Elagabalus, 218-222 CE
Mint and Date: Markianopolis in Lower Moesia, 218-222 CE.
Size and Weight: 26mm, 10.81g
Obverse: AVT K M AVP ANTΩNEINOC AVΓ IOVΛIA MAICA AVΓ
Facing busts of Elagabalus, laureate, draped and cuirassed, right; and Julia Maesa, diademed and draped, left.
Reverse: VΠ IOVΛ ANT CEΛEVKOV MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN (OV ligate both times).
Hermes standing facing, leaning on a column, caduceus in left hand, purse hanging from right hand. E in right field.
Ref: Varbanov I (English) 1667; Hristova/Jekov (2011) 6.28.10.5; AMNG I — (but see 950 for the same type).
BW Ref: 041 026 029
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