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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4667005, member: 89514&quot;]Severus Alexander wrote regarding the order of Aemilian&#039;s two obv. legends: (One small correction, though: the earlier legend is PIVS FEL AVG rather than P F AVG.)</p><p><br /></p><p>No, Roman Collector is correct: the IMP CAES P F AVG legend came before PIVS FEL AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mattingly himself in RIC, p. 189 added a note that the order of these two legends should be reversed from what he had written in the catalogue text.</p><p><br /></p><p>One argument for this corrected order: on Aemilian&#039;s rare muled sestertius RIC 55, taking over the AETERNITAS AVGG type of his predecessor Trebonianus Gallus, Aemilian&#039;s obv. legend is IMP CAES P F AVG rather than PIVS FEL AVG. So IMP CAES P F AVG should be the earlier legend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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