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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 24620425, member: 15481&quot;]Me too. Seriously. </p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine that a Liberalitas would demand the prescence of the emperor. After all, which CEO would accept some local employee to go and throw around coins? But considering that Severus Alexander came from the province of Syria, it’s not unthinkable that he would visit his home crowd with a couple of sacks of newly minted denarii?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s Maximinus Thrax not really looking like himself:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565593[/ATTACH]</p><p>Maximinus I. 235-238 AD. AR Denarius, Rome circa 235-236 AD. </p><p>Obverse: IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right </p><p>Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTI, Salus seated left, feeding from patera a serpent rising from altar.</p><p>Reference: RIC IV 14; BMCRE 99; RSC 85a.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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