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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Codera, post: 24705951, member: 70631&quot;]Lately I&#039;ve been thinking of collecting a set of the whole Severan Dynasty since I&#039;ve found that they really hit that sweet spot between being having high quality coins that are more affordable than the Twelve Caesars/Adoptive Emperors and even though it&#039;s a relatively obscure period of Roman history (which helps to keep the prices cheap because of lower demand), it&#039;s also just an incredibly fascinating time of transition between when the Romans were unstoppable and when everything goes to hell during the Crisis of the Third Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two denarii I had before today were already part of the Severan dynasty with Caracalla and Alexander Severus but now I welcome into my collection my first portrait of an empress, this lovely denarius of Julia Domna!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578495[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="6"><b>Roman Empire, Julia Domna 193-217, Silver Denarius</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>3.32g, 20mm</p><p>Draped bust of Julia Domna right &quot;IVLIA AVGVSTA&quot;</p><p>Pudicitia seated left, head left, hands on her chest. &quot;PVDICITIA&quot;</p><p>RSC 168</p><p><br /></p><p>There wasn&#039;t as much info to go with this coin compared to the ones I buy from the vendor I normally get coins from (Forum Ancient Coins). I instead got this from Aegean Numismatics through VCoins so I did a little bit of research looking up the RSC 168 coin type and I could be wrong but I believe this coin was minted at the provincial Laodicea mint from Julia Domna&#039;s own native Syria and the date can be narrowed to 196-202 CE, so while her husband Septimius Severus was still in charge of the empire. I wasn&#039;t given a coin grade but if I have to guess and unless someone with more experience is able to correct me, I&#039;m going to say it&#039;s about a VF or so. All-in-all, a beautiful coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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