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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7386469, member: 19463&quot;]Since you asked:&nbsp; I started with the Severans in the mid 1960&#039;s and have a bit of over 700 now.&nbsp; When you say your goal might be the Severan line, I hope you do not plan on getting just one coin from each person but recognize that there are thousands of options for how to collect.&nbsp; I like both of your coins.&nbsp; I might suggest a few others that would compliment them.&nbsp; First, both were rather cute kids and had their first coins several years before yours came out.&nbsp; </p><p>Caracalla</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285751[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Geta</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285752[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly you could also get coins that are not denarii:</p><p>Caracalla as Caesar sestertius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285753[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Geta as Caesar AE as (before you comment on the condition, show me a better one of this type):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285754[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are the denarii issued from mints in the East during the period that Septimius was out their making war:</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla from a Syrian mint (exact location less than certain but the old school still call this one Laodicea):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285758[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto Geta:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285759[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are coins issued for local use in the Provinces:</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla, silver tetradrachm from Antioch:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285760[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Geta from Nicopolis with the Apollo Sauroktonos statue (the Louvre has a copy, the original is lost):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285761[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Domna&#039;s are not ALL pricey.&nbsp; Many are available in the same bracket as the boys&#039; coins.&nbsp; This tetradrachm is, however, likely to be a bit more than you want to spend since it was struck in the Alexandria mint and shows the two boys shaking hands.&nbsp; The coin is dated within a few weeks of Geta&#039;s murder.&nbsp; If Caracalla knew that someone there issued this type, he must not have been pleased.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285764[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, some of us do specialize a bit more than you might want in the beginning.&nbsp; These denarii are all Eastern mints (Syria and Alexandria) and are all quite different in my eyes even if they all have the famous Venus from the rear reverse.&nbsp; The last one is out of place here since it shows Septimius Severus on the obverse.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285762[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Should we warn that you might want to run away now before the addiction grabs you without mercy?&nbsp; It may be too late already???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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