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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7886482, member: 19463&quot;]Today this thread dropped from page one suggesting interest is waning so I wonder if it will last through the month.&nbsp; Perhaps I should change to a few coins that are not Eastern once in a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>14. Septimius Severus is referred to as &#039;The African Emperor&#039; since he was born in Leptis Magna (now in Libya) from Roman (or Romanized?) parents.&nbsp; We have already seen postings of some of his coins honoring Africa and his extensive building projects there.&nbsp; This denarius is from the later years of his reign and is not as frequently seen as the popular Africa standing and the very popular Dea Caelestas riding a lion types.&nbsp; Here we see the personification of Africa reclining, wearing an elephant headdress <strike>with a snake</strike> (thanks to PeteB for the correction) and holding a scorpion.&nbsp; Before her is a basket of grain. She holds a cornucopia reminding the viewer of the importance of Africa in the Roman grain supply.&nbsp; The obverse is the common late period SEVERVS PIVS AVG with three forked beard which most people associate with Septimius. The type is traditionally assigned to 207 AD but I do not know on what basis since, unlike the Africa standing coins, there are no dated coins with the seated figure.&nbsp; The portrait does place it in that later period probably just before the Emperor left for his final campaigns in Britain. My example came from a collection being disbursed by Andy Singer.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360416[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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