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Auction 6  9 Oct 2018
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Lot 18
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Syria> Elagabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus): AR Tetradrachm, Antioch, Syria, 218-220 CE; 26 x 24mm, 11.25g. AVT K M A ANTѠNEINOC CEB, laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΔHMAPX EΞ YΠATOC TO B, eagle standing front, head left, wreath in beak, tail left, star between legs, Δ-E on either side of eagle's head. Prieur 249. Only 18 at the time of his death, "the name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others because of his unspeakably disgusting life"; called Elagabalus only after his death.
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