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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 3997597, member: 89514&quot;]My tentative explanation of this type: might refer to the imperial family&#039;s visit to Egypt in 199-200 AD, like the As of Septimius Severus with rev. TR P VIII (200 AD), Nilus reclining with putti representing the Four Seasons, published by myself in Num. Chron. 1970, and now in the British Museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Date of Julia&#039;s Isis type: certainly between 197 and 202, the operation dates of Septimius&#039; new-style Syrian mint, because that mint copied the type from Rome. Certainly 198 or later, the year of the drastic reduction in the volume of Septimius&#039; Rome-mint bronze coins, because Julia&#039;s SAECVLI FELICITAS type is very rare on sestertii and middle bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed the wreath held by Isis about twenty years ago, but have never searched for parallels and attempted to explain it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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