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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4630678, member: 110350&quot;]<i>My</i> Severina has no mustache!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Unless she was just bleaching the hairs on her upper lip.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] explained a couple of years ago that the appearance of a mustache and beard on Severina&#039;s coins is something of an optical illusion: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/billon-denarii-of-aurelian-and-severina.320526/#post-3142872" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/billon-denarii-of-aurelian-and-severina.320526/#post-3142872">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/billon-denarii-of-aurelian-and-severina.320526/#post-3142872</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It&#039;s unfortunate that the deeper patina tends to be black and when the lighter-colored surface patina is removed from the high points during cleaning, it always looks like she has a Van Dyke beard . . . . Or even a full beard!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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