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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7878128, member: 85693&quot;]Septemberius 9th - a very pitiful limes denarius.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the obvious problems, this has the very rare OVID poet&#039;s reverse, seldom found in any condition.&nbsp; The reverse figure is Rehabilitatia, the goddess of restored literary reputations. According to the <i>Historia Augusta </i>and the eBay auction from whence this coin came<i>, </i>Julia Domna, a big fan of Ovid&#039;s racier poetry, was the agent for her husband&#039;s revoking of Augustus&#039;s banishment of the poet nearly two centuries earlier and the return of his ashes to Rome, commemorated on this coin...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358267[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Septimius Severus</b></p><p><b>Limes Denarius</b></p><p><b>(200-201 A.D.)</b> </p><p><b>Rome Mint?</b></p><p>[SEVER]VS AVG PAR[T MAX], laureate head right / [PR]OVID AVGG, Providentia</p><p>standing half-left, holding wand over globe to left and sceptre.</p><p>RIC 166; RSC 586</p><p>(1.90 grams / 18 x 12 mm)</p><p>eBay Sep. 2019 </p><p><br /></p><p>A close-up of its snapped-off edge: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358266[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For any beginners out there, I made up the Ovid part.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a link to Ovid&#039;s banishment:&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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