ELAGABALUS Roman Emperor / SNAKE Coin 218-222 AD. MOESIA INFERIOR + COA GGcoins

Description

Roman Emperor
Elagabalus / Snake
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
MOESIA INFERIOR
-- Marcianopolis (mint)
Reign:
218 - 222 AD.
Ancient
Roman Provincial coin
:
Size:
(19.mm).
Weight:
(4.22gm.)
Description:
Obverse:
AVΤΜΑVΡΗA   ΑΝΤΩΝΣΙΝΟC,
Laureate Elagabalus bust facing right.
.
Reverse:
MAPKINOΠOΛEITΩN,
Snake entwined
around staff--Rod of Asklepios...
Reference:
SNG Cop 240
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History:
Elagabalus
,
In 217, the emperor Caracalla was assassinated and replaced by his Praetorian prefect,
Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated
a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson (and Caracalla's cousin),
Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place. Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218 at the
Battle of Antioch.
Elagabalus, barely 14 years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly
for sex scandals and religious controversy.
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 Elagabalus,
of whom he had been high priest.
He forced leading members of Rome's government to participate in religious rites celebrating t
his deity, over which he personally presided. Elagabalus was supposedly "married" as many as
five times, and lavished favours on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers.
He was also reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace.
Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity,
decadence, and zealotry.
This tradition has persisted, and with writers of the early modern age he suffers one of the worst
reputations among Roman emperors.  "The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others"
because of his "unspeakably disgusting life".  "Elagabalus was not a tyrant, but he was an incompetent,
probably the least able emperor Rome had ever had.
Elagabalus is considered by some to be an early transgender figure and one of the first on record
as seeking sex reassignment surgery...
His behavior estranged the Praetorian Guard, the Senate, and the common people alike.
Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by
his cousin Severus Alexander on 11 March 222, who ruled for 13 years before his own assassination,
which marked the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century.
The assassination plot against Elagabalus was devised by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and
carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.
He was called Elagabalus only after his death.
The rod of Asclepius
,
a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today.
Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.
Asclepius
, Greek
Asklepios,
Latin
Aesculapius
, Greco-Roman god of medicine, son of Apollo
(god of healing, truth, and prophecy) and the mortal princess Coronis.
The Centaur Chiron taught him the art of healing. At length Zeus (the king of the gods), afraid that
Asclepius might render all men immortal, slew him with a thunderbolt. Apollo slew the Cyclopes who
had made the thunderbolt and was then forced by Zeus to serve Admetus.
Homer, in the Iliad, mentions him only as a skillful physician and the father of two Greek doctors at
Troy, Machaon and Podalirius; in later times, however, he was honoured as a hero and eventually
worshiped as a god. The cult began in Thessaly but spread to many parts of Greece.
Because it was supposed that Asclepius effected cures of the sick in dreams, the practice of sleeping
in his temples in Epidaurus in South Greece became common. In 293 bc his cult spread to Rome,
where he was worshiped as Aesculapius.
Asclepius was frequently represented standing, dressed in a long cloak, with bare breast; his usual
attribute was a staff with a serpent coiled around it. This staff is the only true symbol of medicine.
A similar but unrelated emblem, the caduceus, with its winged staff and intertwined serpents, is
frequently used as a medical emblem but is without medical relevance since it represents the magic
wand of Hermes, or Mercury, the messenger of the gods and the patron of trade.
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The Coin:
A very pleasing example of a Roman Provincial coin
featuring
a well known Emperor Elagabalus
,
it saw some
use before it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
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