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Denarius of Elagabalus

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obverse: Bust, laureate, draped, r.; reverse: Elagabalus, laureate, draped to feet, standing frontally, head l., sacrificing out of patera in r. hand over garlanded and lighted altar l., and holding club, sloped slightly up to r.; at l. shoulder, star, high l., in field
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The George Davis Chase Collection of Roman Coins Gift of George Davis Chase Professor of Classics and Dean of Graduate Study at the University of Maine
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Title: Denarius of Elagabalus
Description:
obverse: Bust, laureate, draped, r.
; reverse: Elagabalus, laureate, draped to feet, standing frontally, head l.
, sacrificing out of patera in r.
hand over garlanded and lighted altar l.
, and holding club, sloped slightly up to r.
; at l.
shoulder, star, high l.
, in field.

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