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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4410967, member: 89514&quot;]DonnaML,</p><p><br /></p><p>Your denarius shows not the emperor on the reverse, but the Genius of the Senate, so his attribute has to be a short scepter, not a sword! A pity that the BM website perpetuates this old error (Genius misdescribed as emperor). The correction was made by Alföldi in his Insignien und Tracht of c. 1935, followed by many others since then, including a recent article by R. Ziegler. On coins of Antoninus Pius, for example, the same togate figure is labeled GENIO SENATVS. His beard and bushy hairstyle on your coin are exactly as required for the Genius, and exclude Balbinus. No surprise that the Genius of the Senate reappears on the coins of Balbinus and Pupienus, since they were senators themselves and were chosen to be emperors by the Senate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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