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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2713661, member: 19463&quot;]One of the big appeals to my eye offered by the first issues of Septimius from Rome is the huge variation in portraits used before the mint settled down and decided what he really looked like.&nbsp; On another thread I showed several and was told they were all the same.&nbsp; These are not coins for people who want only one Septimius.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Reka Devnia hoard numbers say that the more common XIIII GEM M V make up half of the legionary coins with the rest not at all equally divided between the others.&nbsp; LEG III ITAL is on the scarce side of average.&nbsp; Yours has something going on on the reverse (clash, overstrike --- what?).&nbsp; Mine is below.&nbsp; Our portraits are hardly similar at all. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]613274[/ATTACH] </p><p>The rest of my set is on my series of six pages.&nbsp; <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></p><p>but I even have a separate page on LEG III:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac44leg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac44leg.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac44leg.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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