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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3941694, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx</a></p><p>I was pleased to discover that the online posting of the coins in the British Museum collection has progressed at least to the point it include my period of interest (Septimius Severus).&nbsp; To use, go to the page linked above and type in key words to see if you can find what you want.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they made some decisions as to how the search works that makes it hard to be too specific.&nbsp; For example, there are rare coins of Septimius with II COS on the reverse but searching for that string also returns anything with COS while omitting the space and searching IICOS returns nothing.&nbsp; I wanted to see their Septimius coin of the rare legion XXII PRI&nbsp; but those letters returned nothing but simplifying it to XXII returned the XXII PRI coin as well as the plain XXII coin with no following letters.&nbsp; What I am telling you is that it will take some practice to find what you are looking for in some cases so you must not assume something is not there just because you can&#039;t find it.&nbsp; I have looked for a very few things so far so am not able to guide you except to say they have some really interesting coins there for those willing to search for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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