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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: ELAGABALUS, AD 218-222. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG., His laureated and draped bust to the right.
Reverse: P. M. TR. P. III COS. III P. P., Sol advancing to the left, holding whip and raising her right hand. Star in the lower left field.
Reference: RIC 28; Sear 2107 var. Grade : EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Elagabalus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Elagabalus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.