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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26263644, member: 91820&quot;]Thanks Bing - it has been an effort to monitor all of the auctions, national ebay sites etc. in an effort to find these - and I still missed a couple - especially of Julia Domna.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I mentioned finding the Geta As through a collector in Germany. It was not the first terrific coin I have purchased through these kinds of contacts, but it is still the exception as to the means by which I find coins with auction sites being the rule.&nbsp; I wish it was possible to do more transactions this way, but there does not seem to be a means to do so. </p><p><br /></p><p>If there are any other people out there who focus on the bronzes of Septimius Severus would love to hear from you.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am especially interested in finding a photo of another example RIC 411 or RIC 410.&nbsp; I really did spend hours last weekend going through major European museum collections and found nothing.&nbsp; Also I am very interested in seeing examples of the more rare sestertii of Septimius - the recent thread on Septimius &quot;Securitas&quot; sestertius was fascinating.</p><p><br /></p><p>One would think that Securitas, which is so common among the sestertii of Caracalla, would also be common for Septimius - but it is not.&nbsp; Salus is also quite rare limited to &quot;IMP X&quot; types. Victory does seem to be the most common type of sestertius for Septimius, which makes sense.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC does, however, give a plausible explanation for why many types were struck.&nbsp; I have a couple of other books that might also do the same - in fact, as I write this I will be checking them out - one book is &quot;Roman Coins&quot; by Harold Mattingly, the other is also called &quot;Roman Coins&quot; by CHV Sutherland.&nbsp; &nbsp; The Sutherland book excellent, and is the book I would have liked to have written on Roman coins.&nbsp; It has wonderful photographs.</p><p><br /></p><p>One aspect of the sestertii of Septimius that I noticed is the lack of high relief on many of the earlier types.&nbsp; I think this continues a practice from Commodus but I am not certain.&nbsp; And it is not true for every example.&nbsp; But I have suspected it may account for what appears to be a large number of very worn early sestertii.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other issue that you might know about - somewhere on this site in a thread over the past months in which was reference to a major collection with online access that included a number of rare sestertii, including one of two &quot;Di Patrii&quot; sestertius I have seen.&nbsp; But I do not recall the name of the collection -&nbsp; I thought it was Du Chastel and while these coins in the Belgium national collection are wonderful, it was not what I was looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on for another few hours on this topic -[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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