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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8333444, member: 85693&quot;]Interesting thread.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a limes denarius of Septimius Severus that has been broken somewhere along the line:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477223[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Septimius Severus Limes Denarius</b></p><p><b>(200-201 A.D.)</b> </p><p><b>Rome Mint?</b></p><p>[SEVER]VS AVG PAR[T MAX], laureate head right / [PR]OVID AVGG, Providentia</p><p>standing half-left, holding wand over globe to left and sceptre.</p><p>RIC 166; RSC 586</p><p>(1.90 grams / 18 x 12 mm)</p><p>eBay Sep. 2019&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477222[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In a big batch of ancients from fellow CTer [USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] I got a couple of interesting limes.&nbsp; Here are my favorites:</p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander - the workmanship on this one is quite nice, if perhaps not entirely &quot;official&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477226[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Severus Alexander Æ Denarius</b></p><p><b>(c. 222-228 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Limes Imitation of Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate, draped bust right&nbsp; / AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopia.</p><p>Imitative based on RIC IV 127c.</p><p>(2.35 grams / 17 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>This one may fall into the realm of &quot;barbaric imitation&quot; - like one of those imitating radiates of Tetricus or Victorinus (and kin).&nbsp; But not radiate, so I&#039;m guessing Caracalla or Geta was the original model, but it is so crude and blundered I doubt it ever fooled anybody as being from the imperial mints:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1477227[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Caracalla / Geta&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Æ </b>Denarius</b></p><p><b>(c. 190s-210s A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Limes Imitation of Rome Mint</b></p><p>Blundered/worn legend, laureate head right / [C]OS III, jug and lituus</p><p>No reference? </p><p>(1.78 grams / 15 x 13 mm)</p><p>[USER=95247]@tenbobbit[/USER] Oct. 2021[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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