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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24718036, member: 26430&quot;]Here are some of my favorite Severus Alexanders from interesting old collections, two of them NGC encapsulated.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Favoritest-favorite: Provincial bronze from Lydia, Acrasus. </b></p><p>From &quot;The Morris Collection&quot; (i.e., Phil Peck).</p><p>I would like to remove from encapsulation to photograph &amp; submit to RPC, but just haven&#039;t been able to bring myself to do it. (I don&#039;t know why, but that&#039;s how it often goes w/ me &amp; slabbed coins.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580781[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">An ERROR-SLAB! Sev. Alexander Antioch Denarius</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;ex AK Collection&quot; part is correct, though. (Also: &quot;AK&quot; bought it from Münzen &amp; Medaillen FPL 311 [Apr 1970], 285.)</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC accidentally switched two Severus Alexander denarii&#039;s tags, so the website shows the correct coin with the correct holder, but not the holder I actually have! The holder in my possession is shown with a different coin. (And vice versa.) Took a long time to figure it out &amp; find both coins &amp; both NGC tags. Only time I&#039;ve seen/heard of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin came with this XF tag in the holder:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580793[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But it was supposed to come with this AU tag:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580794[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580783[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">Sestertius from one of my favorite collectors:</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Elvira E. Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) Collection, famous numismatist &amp; important long-time Curator of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian (Washington, DC).</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, her son was named Alexander (1943-2014, reportedly born in Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the 18 months his parents were held there).</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt Alex Clain-Stefanelli was <i>actually</i> named after this coin or emperor, but one can imagine, right?</p><p><br /></p><blockquote>Perhaps, while he was away at his first semester of college, Elvira &amp; her curator-husband Vladimir (1914-1982) would look at this coin and be reminded of their son?</p><blockquote><p><br /></p><p><i>E:</i> &quot;It has his eyes, don&#039;t you think?&quot;</p><p><i>V:</i> &quot;But look how much thicker his body is? Our Alex is so slender!&quot;</p><p><i>E:</i> &quot;Have you seen how greasy the food is at that dormitory cafeteria?&quot;</p><p><i>V:</i> &quot;Ah, you&#039;re right. The &#039;freshman fifteen&#039; could be the &#039;freshman forty&#039; for him!&quot;</p><p><i>E:</i> &quot;He will be as beefy as a bare-chested Severan by the winter break!&quot;</p><p><i>Laughter...</i></p><p><i>[end of scene, join us for tomorrow&#039;s presentation of Curtis&#039; Numismatic Drama Theater]</i></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Also: I love the burly bust on the boy-faced emperor!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580795[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">Here&#039;s another Provincial </font></b></p><p>Severus Alexander from Bithynia, Nicaea.</p><p>Lindgren Collection (L &amp; K 145) &amp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3173" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/3173" rel="nofollow">RPC VI (Temp.) 3173.4</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580796[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1985 photos from Lindgren vol. I (w/ Kovacs, <i>Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant</i>):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1580797[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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