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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8013605, member: 84744&quot;]Your post came at the beginning of a terrible week and a half for me, thus my tardy comment, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER].&nbsp; (I&#039;m feeling a lot better now!)&nbsp; I just couldn&#039;t miss saying something about such a beautiful Sev Alex, could I!!&nbsp; First, the toning is just lovely, something I believe you have a weakness for, yes? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Second, I love the portrait style.&nbsp; SA looks quite mature and ready to handle what life will throw at him... unlike most of his young eastern portraits.&nbsp; Both early eastern denarii I have show the callow youth he&#039;s usually represented to be:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390035[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390036[/ATTACH]</p><p>I suppose there&#039;s an element of steely determination on this second one, but he still looks very young.&nbsp; Also on this second one, the engraver didn&#039;t leave enough room for the obverse legend: IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAN followed by a super-squished D and A, and no VG at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer to think your portrait is a more accurate depiction of SA&#039;s disposition. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also really enjoyed the writeup on Liberalitas, and the further discussion in the thread.&nbsp; It seems you&#039;ve collectively put together some pretty good evidence that the device is a coin tray.&nbsp; Cool!&nbsp; I hope archaeologists eventually find one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few SA Liberalitas issues, though only in middle bronze.&nbsp; (I don&#039;t really collect SA denarii or sestertii.)&nbsp; Here&#039;s his accession issue dupondius, Rome mint, issued in 222:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390047[/ATTACH]</p><p>I find it interesting that your coin is dated to 223, many months into the reign, despite its being copied from a 222 Rome mint product (RIC 148).&nbsp; It&#039;s also interesting that the Rome mint accession issue seems to be significantly scarcer than the eastern first liberality; in fact I think several alleged RIC 148&#039;s on acsearch are misidentified eastern denarii.&nbsp; (The accession issue dupondius above is decidedly rare.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an As-sized medallion for his Liberalitas III, with an interesting provenance.&nbsp; I&#039;m particularly pleased that it is ex Curtis Clay!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390056[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">AE medallion. Roma 64 lot 795, 28.11.2019; Ex Naumann 76 lot 474 (07.04.2019); Ex Leu 5 lot 760 (23.09.2018), from the G. G. collection; Ex CNG 315 lot 479 (20.11.2013), from the R. D. Frederick collection; previously part of the Curtis Clay collection, acquired by Clay from Lanz Graz IV, 23 November 1974, lot 605, from the collection of the Marquis de Albrecht Hohenkubin (von Kubinzky)(1885-1972) - a collection formed in the early 1900s, buried during Allied bombing of Vienna in WWII, then dug out of the rubble in 1955.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, here&#039;s a hefty (15.27g, 29mm) As from his fourth Liberalitas:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390057[/ATTACH]</p><p>Not much to say about this one, but who doesn&#039;t like extra-chunky coins? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK phew, glad to get all that off my chest! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie55" alt=":hurting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Thanks for the great thread!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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