OTD 145 CE Septimius Severus, militaristic & diplomatic genius w\excellent taste in wives is born

chap., That's a handsome coin with lovely cabinet toning ! I've got a similar coin from a slightly earlier issue pictured below.

 

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Nice pile-on thread, @Ryro! I love that Irenopolis coin, and of course your JD Venus denarius is super sweet. I wish I had one of those cool Laodicea tets that others have shown.

I keep buying Sep Sevs despite not being a specialist. I blame @dougsmit and @maridvnvm. Here are a few of my favourite Septies:

Extremely rare early (first?) issue from "Emesa":


VICTOR IVST ("Emesa"), a type borrowed from Niger. Quickly changed to VICTOR SEVER because it was Niger who was known as IVST!


A Perinthos Dionysos:


Priapos at attention in Nicopolis:


My silliest portrait (from Petra). People complain about Gallienus's neck beard, but check out these lip sproingies:


This next wacky thing (a denarius in good metal) must be an imitation, given the messed-up legends (PONΛE ISPLTI??), but wow, impressive style!


And some Domnas:

Alexandria:


An As from my middle bronze collection:


And my favourite Domna provincial, from Thessalonika:

 

Those are two of my favorites from your collection. My Venus has the other legend option and I have nothing like that PERTII obverse. There are a lot of less than official but decent metal coins of this period. I doubt anyone is studying them seriously. For that matter, I don't know how anyone could.