RIC IV Elagabalus 401
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Roman EmpireRIC IV Elagabalus 401. Denomination: As. Authority: Elagabalus. Mint: Rome. Source: American Numismatic Society, Online Coins of the Roman Empire.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Bronze
- Denomination
- As
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Rome
- Authority
- Elagabalus
Design
- Obverse
- Bust of Julia Soaemias, hair waved and turned up low at the back, draped, right
- Reverse
- Cybele, towered, draped, seated left in a throne between two lions, holding branch in extended right hand and resting left arm on drum set on left knee
- Obverse legend
- IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVGVSTA
- Reverse legend
- MATER DEVM S C
Catalogue references
- RIC / OCREric.4.el.401
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