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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4907329, member: 84744&quot;]Missed this great thread.&nbsp; Here are some of my favourite SAs.</p><p><br /></p><p>SA as Caesar (denarius).&nbsp; The Indulgentia reverse is unusual in this context, and seems to represent Elagabalus&#039;s &quot;great magnanimity&quot; in naming SA Caesar despite his past perceived transgressions.&nbsp; Bestowing the title was probably orchestrated by Julia Maesa.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184138[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a thing for SA&#039;s middle bronzes, and this is one of my favourites: an accession issue dupondius advertising a liberality:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184142[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also like this childlike portrait on an early issue (222-223) from Alexandria:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184143[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>... and the slightly older-looking portrait on this sestertius from 223:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184147[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This next one is actually a medallion (or &quot;pseudo-medallion&quot; in Toynbee&#039;s terminology), with indications on the edge that it was enclosed in a frame.&nbsp; The dies are as-sized, but the coin is sestertius sized (it was listed in the auction catalogue as an ordinary sestertius).&nbsp; The legend/type combo is not in RIC.&nbsp; Probably it was a ceremonial New Year&#039;s issue for when SA received his third tribunician power in 224.&nbsp; I feel very lucky to have this coin, which I doubt I could have afforded if it had been described correctly!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184150[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another medallion, though ordinary as-sized in this case.&nbsp; It lacks &quot;S C&quot; on the reverse, indicating it&#039;s a special issue, for the third liberality in 226.&nbsp; It has a cool pedigree too: the G.G. collection of middle bronzes, the R. D. Frederick collection, the Curtis Clay collection, and then back to the collection of the Marquis de Albrecht Hohenkubin (von Kubinzky)(1885-1972).&nbsp; His home was bombed out in WWII and the only reason his collection survived is because it was not dug out of the rubble until 1955.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184153[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I like this ceremonial reverse type (as, issued 229):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184157[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dupondii of the period don&#039;t come much nicer than this (issued 231):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184160[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>SA is off to Persia!&nbsp; (This will not end well!!) (Another as, also from 231.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184167[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And we come to the end of the reign in 235. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;ll never forgive that bully MaxThrax!!&nbsp; Almost everyone regretted the change in emperor, at least eventually.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184170[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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