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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4000514, member: 80783"]Thank you so much for the info, Curtis!!! This is the icing on the cake for any serious collector. Do you have any plans to publish your research?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found this interesting identification of the second figure on the reverse design as Roma herself in a NAC catalogue:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"This important reverse type celebrates the arrival (adventus) of Severus at Rome following his first Parthian war in A.D. 196. On the reverse of the coin, Septimius Severus, now the undisputed emperor of the Roman world, enters Rome on horseback, raising his hand in greeting and led by a figure often described as a soldier, but who is clearly Roma, the personification of Rome. She is distinguished by her Amazonian dress and bared breast — features not in line the common Roman soldier of the second century. Similar adventus scenes, in which emperors on foot greet or are accompanied by Roma are known from earlier coins of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138) and a relief panel from the Arch of Marcus Aurelius. As such, the reverse type of Severus’ aureus casts him in the tradition of the ”good” emperors of the second century, but his mounted depiction gives his entry into Rome a somewhat greater triumphal quality than the earlier representations of Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius on foot."</i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 4000514, member: 80783"]Thank you so much for the info, Curtis!!! This is the icing on the cake for any serious collector. Do you have any plans to publish your research? I found this interesting identification of the second figure on the reverse design as Roma herself in a NAC catalogue: [I]"This important reverse type celebrates the arrival (adventus) of Severus at Rome following his first Parthian war in A.D. 196. On the reverse of the coin, Septimius Severus, now the undisputed emperor of the Roman world, enters Rome on horseback, raising his hand in greeting and led by a figure often described as a soldier, but who is clearly Roma, the personification of Rome. She is distinguished by her Amazonian dress and bared breast — features not in line the common Roman soldier of the second century. Similar adventus scenes, in which emperors on foot greet or are accompanied by Roma are known from earlier coins of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138) and a relief panel from the Arch of Marcus Aurelius. As such, the reverse type of Severus’ aureus casts him in the tradition of the ”good” emperors of the second century, but his mounted depiction gives his entry into Rome a somewhat greater triumphal quality than the earlier representations of Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius on foot." [/I][/QUOTE]
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