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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1394743, member: 19463"]I have long specialized in Septimius but have relatively few of him with that extreme three pointed beard. They did not come out in full glory until later in the reign and I was always more interested in the earlier coins when his beard was less styled and more ragged. There are some of the legionaries where you see a start of the three curls but they were not as long and separate as later was shown. Oddly about the most three pointed is the more common die used with the rare legion XXII PRI. Recently I became aware of a second obverse die used with that legion (from only one coin) and it was not tripled. I always wondered at the extreme variation on Septimius portraits from 193 AD. Later they became more standardized.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/legions.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/legions.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/legions.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1394743, member: 19463"]I have long specialized in Septimius but have relatively few of him with that extreme three pointed beard. They did not come out in full glory until later in the reign and I was always more interested in the earlier coins when his beard was less styled and more ragged. There are some of the legionaries where you see a start of the three curls but they were not as long and separate as later was shown. Oddly about the most three pointed is the more common die used with the rare legion XXII PRI. Recently I became aware of a second obverse die used with that legion (from only one coin) and it was not tripled. I always wondered at the extreme variation on Septimius portraits from 193 AD. Later they became more standardized. [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/legions.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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