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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1816856, member: 19463&quot;]This is a well known variation most of which seem to have taken up residence at Martin&#039;s place.&nbsp; I belie, however, I still have one not shown.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]297636[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the appeal of Septimius Severus is that his coins are numerous and considered beneath the notice of high end collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are many Eastern denarii that are unlisted in the standard works to the point that a catalog of Martin&#039;s collection would be a better reference than RIC or any of the online databases.&nbsp; I suspect he has a half dozen coin that are the only one known but that is hard o demonstrate in a series so large and so poorly respected by scholars.&nbsp; There have been several other major collections formed and dispersed in the time I have been interested in them.&nbsp; These coins are not as beautiful and well preserved in large numbers as popular rarities.&nbsp; Scholars of the 19th century preferred to work with 12 Caesars leaving our Septimius for collectors of another millennium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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