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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2327716, member: 42773"]Hey, I've got a whole baggie full of DS coins! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here's a first-year-of-issue denarius with a great bust. According to RIC, “The earliest coins [of Septimius Severus] are struck on singularly small, thickish flans; larger, less dumpy flans, come in around AD 200.” (RIC IVa, p. 56) I’m not sure I’d call this flan “dumpy,” but it is tight. However, it's centered so nicely that even though the inscriptions are a bit clipped, all the letters are present, which is unusual for Severus’ earliest denarii. [ATTACH=full]471490[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus, AD 193-211Æ denarius, 2.2g, 17mm, 6h; Rome mint, AD 193-194.Obverse: IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG; Head, laureate, right.Rev.: VICT AVG TRP COS; Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm.Reference: RIC IVa 22, p. 94.From the Doug Smith Collection, #292[/QUOTE]