Denarius

Rome

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19mm, 3.03g

RIC 225

Vestel virgin wife of Elagabalus

“The marriage of Elagabalus to Aquilia Severa in 220 AD scandalized Rome; both because vestel virgins were not allowed to marry on pain on death (before the age of 35) and also because of the theological overtones, given Elagabalus' religious reforms, centered on the worship of the meteoric baetyl El-Gabal. “

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