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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8205456, member: 99456&quot;]Here is a munificent elephant from the party that Septmius threw to ingratiate himself to the people of Rome after defeating Clodius Albinus and before he headed east on his second Parthian expedition.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;after giving a gladiatorial show and bestowing largess upon the people, he set out for the Parthian war.&quot;</i></p><p>- Historia Augusta, <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Septimius_Severus*.html#14.11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Septimius_Severus*.html#14.11" rel="nofollow">14.11</a><b></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1438516[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus</b>, 193-211 AD, Rome, 197 AD, AR Denarius</p><p><b>Obv:</b> L SEPT SEV PERT - AVG IMP VIIII, head laureate right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> MVNIFICENTIA AVG, elephant walking right</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.100" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.100" rel="nofollow">100</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: </b>another coin recognizing the emperor&#039;s largess[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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