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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 8198358, member: 31620&quot;]In my collecting areas I am always chasing after examples that I don&#039;t currently have in my collection. I will accept these in any condition, they just have to exist and be identifiable. Obviously I will also accept them if they are spectacular but that doesn&#039;t happen very often.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these is spectacular in any way but they are informative.</p><p><br /></p><p>As one of my focus areas I collect the short legend oddities of the eastern COS II series of Septimius Severus.</p><p><br /></p><p>One obverse die has the legend &quot;IMP CA L SEP SE-V PER AVG COS II&quot;. I have four examples of this die. The fourth example could certainly qualify as decrepit but there is enough there for me to match the obverse die. It is a reverse type not previously known to me for this die. I am attempting to perform some die analysis to link coins within this series and also to connect them with coins from the longer legend series. This will hopefully allow me to make some suggestions about where these coins fit in the overall eastern output which is currently based on very loose assumptions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also willing to gather double die matches (see coins 2 and 3) as this also helps in attempting to build a relative strike chronology. The wear patterns are not always circulation wear but die wear. On these coins I think that there is progressive die wear to the obverse die (seen between coins 2&amp;3). Coin 4 has a similar level of die wear to coin 2 and so we could assert that it was struck before coin 3. If I can then overlay other die links and track down other examples either in my own collection or other collections then a bigger picture emerges.</p><p><br /></p><p>In summary for some coins they simply have to exist for me to want them otherwise why would anyone in the world want something like coin 4?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064uy_img.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064kb_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064rj_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ug_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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