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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4830658, member: 19463&quot;]That is FORTVN REDVC and a very ordinary coin.&nbsp; <b>VICTOR IVST Julia Domna </b>is the star of my page <u>Bride of My Favorite Coin</u> where she married the coin that started my Severan interest in ~1963 (guessing but it appeared in a photo from 1964 and was not new then).</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bride.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bride.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bride.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the nine years since that page was written the guest list for that wedding has grown to include the estranged twin sister of the bride (a die duplicate with better surfaces but poor centering - pretty skin but no personality) ex. AK collection from Triton XX.&nbsp; If I still had access to my Forvm sponsored pages, I might have to double the size of this page.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1168322[/ATTACH]</p><p>and an evil uncle (the VICTOR IVST of Pescennius Niger).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1168325[/ATTACH]</p><p>I have posted so much on these coins that everyone should be completely bored by now but these coins have been the center of my numismatic existence for over 50 years.&nbsp; The Bride has been dismissed by experts as just a mule with reverse of Septimius Severus but I am aware of five coins (my two, two in the BM and one as listed by Cohen in the BnF).&nbsp; None are known in the name of Septimius.&nbsp; Alexandria did not make a practice of sharing reverse <u>DIES</u> between Septimius and Julia even when the <u>types</u> were identical.&nbsp; IMHO there never were any <u>seated</u> VICTOR IVST coins for Septimius.&nbsp; Prove me wrong; post one.&nbsp; Please!</p><p><br /></p><p>To all of you relatively new to collecting ancient coins:&nbsp; I hope you find even a fraction of the joy from this hobby that I have experienced.&nbsp; I suggest you get over rating your coins according to their profit potential and find satisfaction from the learning they enable.&nbsp; If you really would rather be collecting race horses or hockey players, save time and move along now.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you missed that last line, see the below starting at 1:54.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]1Ymc0JVcgFk[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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