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196, Lot: 178. Estimate $100.
Sold for $420. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MESOPOTAMIA, Carrhae. Elagabalus. AD 218-222. Æ 17mm (3.29 g, 5h). Radiate head right / Crescent set on small filleted globe, rosette of seven pellets within crescent. Cf. BMC 14 (Caracalla); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, black patina under some earthen deposits.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

Neither BMC nor SNG Copenhagen list any coins of Elagabalus from Carrhae. A coin in BMC similar to this and the following lot is assigned to Caracalla, but the portrait features more closely resemble Elagabalus.