#15) Provincial Bronze (AE26) of Elagabalus, A.D. 218-222
Moesia Inferior, Markianopolis
Moushmov 633
Obverse: AVT K M AVPHΛIOC ANTΩNEINOC.
Reverse: VΠ IOVΛ ANT CEΛEV-KOV MAPKIANOΠO; ΛITΩN in exergue - Homonoia, standing, facing left, holding patera and cornucopiae. (Magistrate: Julius Antonius Seleukus.)
26 mm, 11.1 g.
$35

Elagabalus

Raised to be a priest of the Elagabalus (Baal) cult, Antoninus, known to history as Elagabalus, was 14 years old when he was brought to Rome by his grandmother to be emperor. His exotic Eastern influences and his flamboyant sexual escapades proved to be too much for conservative Roman society, and he was executed about the time of his eighteenth birthday.

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