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Elagabalus AR antoninianus. Struck AD 219-220. 21 mm, 5.66 g. IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. / CONSERVATOR AVG, Emperor standing left by altar before a facing quadriga carrying the baetyl (conical stone) of Emesa, surmounted by an eagle and with parasol to left and right. Unpublished.
- Elagabalus Denarius. 219 Ad. Imp Antoninvs Avg, Laureate, Draped Bust Right / P M TR P II COS II P P, Fortuna Seated Left, Holding Rudder on Globe & Cornucopiae, Wheel Under Seat. RSC 149. * Sear RCV 7529 * WildWinds
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- Elagabalus Denarius. 219 Ad. Imp Antoninvs Avg, Laureate, Draped Bust Right / P M TR P II COS II P P, Fortuna Seated Left, Holding Rudder on Globe & Cornucopiae, Wheel Under Seat. RSC 149. * Sear RCV 7529 * WildWinds
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Young “Antoninus” was proclaimed Emperor by his troops, and the Senate in Rome had little choice but to ratify his official titles. An early denarius struck at Antioch shows the arrival (ADVENTUS) of the emperor riding an improbably small pony. The profile portrait exaggerates the size of the eye, in a stylized “Eastern” manner to make the image se...
Late in 219, his grandmother arranged his marriage to Julia Cornelia Paula, a young woman from an old aristocratic family. Her portrait appears on coins, with a reverse depicting Concordia, the personification of harmony. The unhappy marriage ended in divorce after only one year. Deprived of her title as empress (Augusta), Julia Paula retired to pr...
Along with wives Elagabalus had a succession of male lovers. The most famous of these was Heliocles, a handsome blond charioteer who supposedly “married” the emperor and beat him when he was unfaithful. Romans were fairly relaxed about sex, but it was considered unseemly for elite adult males to play a passive role. While the emperor was a beardles...
The emperor’s mother (Julia Soaemias) had a sister (Julia Mamaea) who had a son (Alexianus, born 1 October 208). Elagabalus having failed to produce an heir, the women of the family pressured him to adopt his cousin Alexianus as his successor. An entirely conventional young elite Roman, Alexianus proved to be popular with the army. When Elagabalus ...
Considering his short reign and official condemnation (damnatio memoriae, or “damnation of memory”), the coinage of Elagabalus is very common. This may be because it was extensively hoarded due to rampant inflation and debasement over the following decades. There are hundreds of different types. Antioch, Rome, and possibly Nicomedia were the only m...
Chapter VI, Part III, online at http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/01/daf01019.htm In many older sources he is called Heliogabalus, the Latinized name of his god. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus_(deity) H.D. Rauch Summer Auction, 13 September 2010. Lot 940. Realized $135 USD. Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC) Auction 46, 2 April 2008. Lot...
Brauer, George. The Decadent Emperors: Power and Depravity in Third-Century Rome. New York (1967) Corbier, Mireille. “The Economy of the Empire”, The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII: The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337. Cambridge (2005) de Arrizabalaga y Prado, Leonardo. The Emperor Elagabalus: Fact or Fiction?Cambridge (2010) Goldsworthy, Adria...
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Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD): Emperor Elagabalus (218-222) » See 547 coins. Denarius - Elagabalus (PONTIF MAX TR P; Roma and Victory) As - Elagabalus (P M TR P III COS III P P S C) Sestertius - Elagabalus (P M TR P III COS III P P S C) Denarius - Elagabalus (ABVNDANTIA AVG; Abundantia and Annona)
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Elagabalus, 218-222 Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; c. 203 – March 11, 222), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan dynasty , he was Syrian, the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus.
Detailed information about the coin Denarius, Elagabalus (FELICITAS TEMP), Roman Empire (27 BC, 395 AD), with pictures and collection and swap management: mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value and other numismatic data
Elagabalus 218-222 n. Chr. Collection The Digital Coin Cabinet of the University of Cologne, Department of History, Ancient History, and Department of Classics, Byzantine Studies Identifier ID906 Axis 1 Diameter (in mm) 18 Weight (in gr.) 2.80
