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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: ELAGABALUS, AD 218-222. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG., His laureated, bearded and draped bust right.
Reverse: SACERD. DEI SOLIS ELAGAB. Elagabalus standing to the right sacrificing over lit altar (as worshiper and high priest of the sun-god Elagabalus), and holding club. Star in front of him.
Reference: RIC 131; Sear 2114. 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.