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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 2890228, member: 75641&quot;]...if you are Septimius Severus!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to pick up this LIBERALITAS AVG VI issue pretty cheaply.&nbsp; There is a bit of discoloration in a few spots, but the overall coin detail is strong enough that I purchased the coin to have an example of a scarcer type.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In reading up on the LIBERALITAS issues, there is seemingly not a lot of information to be found or much certainty of the dates of these largesses to the citizens of Rome.&nbsp; If I am missing some key source that I am not thinking of here, please fellow Severan collectors, advise.&nbsp; RIC has 209 (?) for the date of the sixth largesse which seems to make sense I guess if Septimius left Rome afterward to deal with Britain and was out of Rome until his death.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, it is an interesting issue to me and I enjoy the depiction of the coin counter (coin dispenser or abacus, when described differently) on the reverse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Open season on all of the Severans or Liberalitas types![ATTACH=full]694360[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus, Denarius, LIBERALITAS AVG VI</b></p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>Septimius Severus</p><p>Augustus: 193 - 211AD</p><p>Issued: 209AD</p><p>21.0 x 19.0mm 3.60gr</p><p>O: SEVERVS PIVS AVG; Laureate head, right.</p><p>R: LIBERALITAS AVG VI; Liberalitas standing left, holding coin dispenser and cornucopia.</p><p>Rome Mint</p><p>RIC 278a; RSC 298; Sear 6306; BMC 349.</p><p>Aorta: 783: B3, O81, R178, T108, M4.</p><p>treewalk123/John Tucker 132175418074</p><p>10/19/17 10/27/17[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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