425, Lot: 487. Estimate $75. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julia Paula. Augusta, AD 219-220. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 2.96 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Elagabalus, AD 220. Draped bust right / Concordia seated left, holding patera; star to left. RIC IV 211 (Elagabalus); Thirion 452; RSC 6a. Good VF, toned with areas of find patina.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, February 1989.

Julia Paula was the first wife of Elagabalus, but the marriage lasted only one year. Elagabalus would have two more wives: Aquilia Severa (whom he married, divorced, and later remarried again) and Annia Faustina.