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Pillar of the Community
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Last one, again a silver antoninianus I think, thanks guys.   You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Pillar of the Community
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Thank you. Do you i.d. such as this one by the portrait alone with it having no clue to his name in the legend?
You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Pillar of the Community
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his real name was marcus aurelius antoninus, so it's the antonivs on the legend.
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Pillar of the Community
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Ah, now that makes sense, thanks for the info!
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Pillar of the Community
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Elagabalus was a nickname, he was a priest of the god Elagabal, or something like that.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks PP, reading up on it now  How is the school project going? If you want any cruds for it let me know! You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Pillar of the Community
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Way behind on the school project was going to finish it up over the holidays. Christmas and new year were awful, doggie tragedy amongst other things, still looking for most of the coins on the list I sent you.
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PP you will have to send a fresh list, email error big style over here! Lost all addresses and info. I have some put to one side, but I can't remember if they are for you, Ben or the school!! I need a break....
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There were actually three Roman emperors who called themselves "Antoninus Pius" on their coins. Since contemporary historians considered both of the latter two emperors as depraved and unworthy of bearing the name of their illustrious predecessor, rather than calling them "Antoninus Pius II" and "Antoninus Pius III", nicknames were used instead: Caracalla and Elagabalus.
But it does mean that you have to be careful attributing a coin bearing an obverse legend such as this one; legend, portrait and type matching are essential. In this case, this particular version of the legend (IMP ANTONINVS AVG) was only ever used on coins of Elagabalus.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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