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NYINC Signature Sale 3071 6-7 Jan 2019
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Elagabalus (AD 218-222). AV aureus (21mm, 6.68 gm, 5h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 220-222. IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right, seen from behind / C-ONSERVATOR AVG, slow quadriga left, drawing car carrying conical stone of Emesa or El-Gabal, decorated with eagle; star above. RIC IV.II 61. Calicó 2988a. Very Rare.
From the Morris Collection.
"Elagabalus" is the name of the Syrian solar deity worshipped in Emesa, the city from which the female side of the Severan dynasty derived. The god was embodied in a black conical stone, probably a meteorite, kept within an elaborate temple. The emperor now commonly called Elagabalus started out life as Varius Avitus Bassianus, the grandson of Julia Maesa, sister to the Empress Julia Domna; after assuming the purple he took the name Antoninus Pius in imitation of his maternal uncle (now commonly called Caracalla). As a priest of Elagabalus, after winning the throne, he ordered the Stone of Emesa brought to Rome in a special chariot, paraded in procession with priests and acolytes the entire way from Syria. The chariot is seen on the reverse of this rare coin type from the mint of Antioch.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 10000-12000 USD
Elagabalus (AD 218-222). AV aureus (21mm, 6.68 gm, 5h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 220-222. IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right, seen from behind / C-ONSERVATOR AVG, slow quadriga left, drawing car carrying conical stone of Emesa or El-Gabal, decorated with eagle; star above. RIC IV.II 61. Calicó 2988a. Very Rare.
From the Morris Collection.
"Elagabalus" is the name of the Syrian solar deity worshipped in Emesa, the city from which the female side of the Severan dynasty derived. The god was embodied in a black conical stone, probably a meteorite, kept within an elaborate temple. The emperor now commonly called Elagabalus started out life as Varius Avitus Bassianus, the grandson of Julia Maesa, sister to the Empress Julia Domna; after assuming the purple he took the name Antoninus Pius in imitation of his maternal uncle (now commonly called Caracalla). As a priest of Elagabalus, after winning the throne, he ordered the Stone of Emesa brought to Rome in a special chariot, paraded in procession with priests and acolytes the entire way from Syria. The chariot is seen on the reverse of this rare coin type from the mint of Antioch.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 10000-12000 USD