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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4558763, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Aren&#039;t you exaggerating our ignorance just a little?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say the figures on your three coins, with near certainty, are:</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius, because of his long beard as you point out, and because the legend RESTITVTOR VRBIS is very appropriate for the emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mars, because no bare breast so not Virtus, and because the emperor very rarely wears a helmet on 1st-3rd cent. AD Roman imperial coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla, because on most of the corresponding coins of Septimius with the numeral XX not X in the rev. legend, the sacrificing figure again wears Septimius&#039; long beard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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