★ Ex Consul Weber and Montagu Collections ★

Elagabalus. AD 218-222. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.65 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 220. IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P III COS III P P, Elagabalus, laureate and togate, standing in slow quadriga left, holding branch with his extended right hand and a short scepter with his left; above, six-rayed star. RIC III 35; Thirion 154; Calicó 3013; BMCRE 183 var. (obv. bust seen from front); Biaggi –. Lustrous, faint hairlines. EF.

From the Provence Collection. Ex Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 1983; Hyman Montagu Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 20 April 1896), lot 544. Lot includes an old collection ticket.