NGC (VF) Roman AR Denarius Elagabalus AD 218 222 NGC Certified Very Fine

Assuming the throne at the tender age of 14, after a palace coup, Elagabalus was anything but the innocent child. Uninterested in the military or affairs of state, the young emperor made use of his imperial godhead to, as Edward Gibbon put it, abandon himself to the grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury.