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Auction 11 12 January 2014
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Elagabalus. 218-222 AD. Sestertius, 20.12g (12h). Rome, 221 AD. Obv: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right, seen from the front, without "horn". Rx: P M TR P IIII COS III P P S - C Emperor in Syrian priestly dress sacrificing left from patera over lighted and garlanded altar and holding knotted "club", slain bull on ground behind altar, star in left field. BM 443 var. Cohen 201 (20 Fr.). RIC 327. This exquisite portrait of Elagabalus cannot possibly be improved upon. Struck on a glossy, flawless, blue-green planchet. It is of the finest possible quality. Mint State
Ex NAC 52, 7 October 2009, lot 1163
Possibly a mule, struck early in 222 from an old reverse die of 221: on denarii, the "horn" seems to have been removed from Elagabalus' portrait only early in 222, so we would expect this "hornless" sestertius obverse die too to have been engraved in 222 not 221
Ex NAC 52, 7 October 2009, lot 1163
Possibly a mule, struck early in 222 from an old reverse die of 221: on denarii, the "horn" seems to have been removed from Elagabalus' portrait only early in 222, so we would expect this "hornless" sestertius obverse die too to have been engraved in 222 not 221