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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 7464528, member: 96898"]Thanks for the kind words and for showing your coins, everyone! That is a very desirable and historically interesting coin that many collectors would overlook. Severus Alexander as Caesar is by no means easy to find. I'm jealous! Looking at your previous thread and and the examples of the presumably unofficial types one can find online, I have to agree with you. That also means that all official denarii types for Julia Soemias have been shown in this thread. (There are, of course, also the scarce bronze issues such as the as shown by [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] and [USER=80783]@Julius Germanicus[/USER] ' fantastic sestertius.) That's certainly right –but one might add in favor of Julia Maesa that Elagabalus' catastrophic conflict with Roman aristocratic society threatened the lifes of herself and the rest of her family, too. If she hadn't at least tolerated the coup against Elagabalus, she, Julia Mamaea, and Severus Alexander would on the long run probably have been brought down together with him. Still, it's hard to see her as a perfect example of pietas: [ATTACH=full]1293057[/ATTACH]Julia Maesa, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 218–222 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IVLIA MAESA AVG, bust of Julia Maesa, draped, r., hair turned up low at the back. Rev: PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, head l. raising both hands, burning altar to l. 20mm, 3.65g. Ref: RIC IV.2 Elagabalus 266. [/QUOTE]