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218 AD - Rome 193-235: Roman Empire - Year of the Five Emperors and Severan dynasty - Ancient Choice Very Fine (Ch VF) Ancient Rome - Ancient Coins - Elagabalus (218- 222)
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Issuer: Roman Empire Composition: Silver; Title: Antoninianus - Elagabalus (TEMPORVM FELICITAS; Felicitas); Ruler: Elagabalus

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"Elagabalus or Heliogabalus (c. 204 – 11 March 222), officially known as Antoninus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was conspicuous for sex scandals and religious controversy. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where since his early youth he served as head priest of the sun god Elagabal. After the death of his cousin the emperor Caracalla,  Elagabalus was raised to the principate at 14 years of age in an army revolt instigated by his grandmother Julia Maesa against Caracallas short-lived successor, Macrinus. As a private citizen, he was probably named Varius Avitus Bassianus. Upon becoming emperor he took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, and only posthumously became known by the Latinised name of his god.Later historians suggest Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He replaced the traditional head of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter, with the deity Elagabal, of whom he had been high priest. He forced leading members of Romes government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, presiding over them in person. He married four women, including a Vestal Virgin, and lavished favours on male courtiers thought to have been his lovers. He was also reported to have prostituted himself. His behavior estranged the Praetorian Guard, the Senate, and the common people alike. Amidst growing opposition, at just 18 years of age he was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Severus Alexander in March 222. The assassination plot against Elagabalus was devised by Julia Maesa, his grandmother, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence, zealotry, and sexual promiscuity. This tradition has persisted, and among  writers of the early modern age he suffered one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors. Edward Gibbon, for example, wrote that Elagabalus abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures with ungoverned fury. According to Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others because of his unspeakably disgusting life. An example of a modern historians assessment is Adrian Goldsworthys: Elagabalus was not a tyrant, but he was an incompetent, probably the least able emperor Rome had ever had. Despite universal condemnation of his reign, some scholars do write warmly about him, including 6th century Roman chronicler John Malalas, and Warwick Ball, a modern historian who described him as innovative and a tragic enigma lost behind centuries of prejudice."
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Denomination Double-Denarius
Metal Silver
Size (mm) | Weight (g) 23 (mm) | 4.89 (g)
Obverse Bust of Elagabalus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, right. Lettering:IMP ANTONINVS AVG
Reverse Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand. Lettering:TEMPORVM FELICITAS
References RIC IV.2 149f;OCRE ric.4.el.149f;
Rating | Rating Group | Serial Number Ancient Choice Very Fine (Ch VF) | NGC | 6827033010
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