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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3199688, member: 19463&quot;]In the early days of my interest in the coins of Septimius Severus I discovered the legionary series issued to honor the legions that supported Septimius from the very beginning in his bid for the purple. Legion XIIII was commanded by Septimius before the death of Commodus and got an extended issue for some months in 193 AD.&nbsp; The other legions got a small issue at the beginning but the total of which is less than those for XIIII.&nbsp; At a coin show in 1987 in New Carrolton, Maryland, I bought my first legionary coin.&nbsp; It was $10 which was a bit high in my mind for a coin that was holed, cracked and encrusted.&nbsp; The legion number was off flan but the letters PRI at the right were clear making it, without doubt, LEG XXII PRI.&nbsp; I was told that this was the most rare of all the Septimius Legions and, further, that there were only half a dozen known to exist.&nbsp; That last statistic was not true.&nbsp; I now have five including two that are die duplicates of that first coin so I really do not &#039;need&#039; it anymore.&nbsp; I will never sell it.&nbsp; It was my first.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]827797[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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