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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2930356, member: 19463&quot;]&quot;Too often!&quot;&nbsp; You don&#039;t see it here but be warned it will come out in my Best of 2017 post unless I get quite a few better coins in the next couple weeks.&nbsp; I do wonder what you paid compared to what I paid.&nbsp; Yours is nicer and the only one I have seen with the &#039;face only&#039; removal.&nbsp; There are many Stratonicaea double portrait coins and very few show up in great condition which means people who turn their noses up at &#039;experienced&#039; coins don&#039;t want them.&nbsp; There is another Caracalla vs. Geta coin waiting for my year end post so not to be shown here but I will trot out another old favorite of the series where the countermark was considered offensive by someone and removed with no finesse whatsoever.&nbsp; There are several different countermarks used where yours has Minerva. I have seen one called &#039;Caracalla&#039; but never one called &#039;Geta&#039;.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe the experts have a firm grasp on these marks or their purpose.&nbsp; Many but not all of the series include the ΘЄOY and I have no idea of its purpose here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus and Julia Domna Stratonicaea minus countermark - was it Geta?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]711380[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Those dynastic denarii are not rare but super popular, high demand and more than I pay.&nbsp; The best one has Septimius on the obverse and Julia with both boys on the reverse.&nbsp; It may be more common as the aureus but I really don&#039;t plan on getting that one.&nbsp; The example in Triton XX went for $32,500. </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324980" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324980" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324980</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t you realize that my main purpose in life is to cause people to spend big money to get a better specimen of coins I have shown in poor shape?&nbsp; If you want something really rare, seek out a coin of this type where Geta was not removed.&nbsp; I have seen two but there are probably more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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