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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3820592, member: 19463&quot;]This is a decent example of a common but interesting type that belongs in any Severan collection and would make a good choice if you only want one coin of this ruler.&nbsp; Specialists will find variations with a drum in place of the thunderbolt as well as coins in the name of young Caracalla.&nbsp; There are some (that I don&#039;t have) that lack the staff.</p><p>regular</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017232[/ATTACH]</p><p>drum</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017233[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caracalla</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017234[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I&#039;m concerned there is nothing not to like about the type.&nbsp; The question is whether you will stop with just one example. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW:&nbsp; Coins of Septimius went through periods of really fine workmanship and periods when it seemed that no one at the mint cared.&nbsp; This issue is usually pretty well made.&nbsp; Coins from a few years earlier are hard to find well centered and complete.&nbsp; &#039;Budget&#039; specimens sold to people who want just one Septimius tend to be from the period of poor workmanship dated IMP V to X but you will have more luck getting good looking coins from the SEVERVS PIVS AVG period.&nbsp; About this same time, Septimius is shown with his pointed, curly beard which people tend to associate with him.&nbsp; It grew longer in his later years so one-per-ruler collectors tend to favor these later coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017235[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I am a fan of the earlier, shorter beard portraits including those from the Eastern&nbsp; mints.&nbsp; This is Rome.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017237[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Emesa&#039; (or not according to who you read)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017238[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1017239[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A collection of a thousand coins of Septimius is not nearly complete.&nbsp; The Water Works lion is a good start.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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