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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7890215, member: 86498&quot;]Septimius Severus Ae &quot;Sestertius&quot; Antioch in Pisidia 205-211 AD Obv. Head right laureate Rv. Victory flying right holding trophy in both hands Krzyzanowska XXXI/ 41&nbsp; 22.62 grams 30 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1361388[/ATTACH]If Krzyzanowska&#039;s chronology is correct circa 205 AD&nbsp; the mint of Antioch in Pisidia started minting a series of impressively large Ae&#039;s These coins are marked with the letters S R. The smaller denominations do not have this distinction. There has been some speculation on this and I wonder if the letters might signal that the coins are to be tariffed as Roman sestertii. The coin has features that are very novel as well as surprisingly static. The obverse legend contans PER which stands for Pertinax a name not seen on the coins of Septimius from the mint of Rome since 201 AD whereas the DDD NNN on the reverse does make a strong case that the coin wasn&#039;t minted until 209 AD when Geta became an Augustus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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