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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1686785, member: 19463&quot;]When Didius Julianus&#039; purchase of the Purple thouroughly grossed out most Romans, three generals rose to put him down. Didius lasted a few seconds leaving the three to decide who was emperor.&nbsp; Septimius Severus quickly allied with Clodius Albinus whom he named Caesar and issued coins with that title like the one shown here.&nbsp; That freed Septimius to do away with Pescennius Niger without having to fight on two fronts.&nbsp; After Pescennius was gone, Septimius named his son Caracalla Caesar and Clodius realized his alliance was finished.&nbsp; At that point he started issuing coins as Augustus from Lugdunum.&nbsp; These are considerably less common than the Caesar issues that were issued in his name by Septimius from Rome (and the rare ones from Alexandria but that is another tale for another day).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have only one Clodius Albinus as Augustus from Lugdunum.&nbsp; They are easily identified by the AVG at the end of the obverse legend and the very different style.&nbsp; Mine is a little stranger than most because the reverse die is strongly clashed making it look more crude than normal.&nbsp; This one has the Genius of Lugdunum reverse GEN LVG COS II.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]253911.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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