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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8097874, member: 57495"]Like everyone else here, Sev, I'm hoping that your treatments are going to help you beat this thing. Our coins so often show "heroes" on them, but to me, you're one in real life, for so admirably continuing to share your warmth, positivity, and inimitable humour with all of us despite the hell you've been going through. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was very glad when I saw that you were keeping your coin collecting fire burning, and am heartened to read about how it helped bring joy and hope back to you. I now also feel a little less bad about having (unwittingly) stolen that Thasos trihemiobol from you at auction. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my favorite Severus Alexander... martial and ready for the fight on one side, and peaceful, meditative and bucolic on the other...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1407831[/ATTACH]<b>SEVERUS ALEXANDER</b></p><p>AE24. 6.97g, 24.6mm. TROAS, Alexandria Troas, 222-235 AD. RPC Online Vol. VI temp #3994; cf. Bellinger A338 (obv A338, rev A225 Type 44). O: IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust left, holding spear & shield decorated with head of Medusa. R: COL AVG, horse grazing right, the herdsman Ordes behind holding pedum (shepherd's crook), tree to left, TROAC in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8097874, member: 57495"]Like everyone else here, Sev, I'm hoping that your treatments are going to help you beat this thing. Our coins so often show "heroes" on them, but to me, you're one in real life, for so admirably continuing to share your warmth, positivity, and inimitable humour with all of us despite the hell you've been going through. I was very glad when I saw that you were keeping your coin collecting fire burning, and am heartened to read about how it helped bring joy and hope back to you. I now also feel a little less bad about having (unwittingly) stolen that Thasos trihemiobol from you at auction. :shy::D Here's my favorite Severus Alexander... martial and ready for the fight on one side, and peaceful, meditative and bucolic on the other... [ATTACH=full]1407831[/ATTACH][B]SEVERUS ALEXANDER[/B] AE24. 6.97g, 24.6mm. TROAS, Alexandria Troas, 222-235 AD. RPC Online Vol. VI temp #3994; cf. Bellinger A338 (obv A338, rev A225 Type 44). O: IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust left, holding spear & shield decorated with head of Medusa. R: COL AVG, horse grazing right, the herdsman Ordes behind holding pedum (shepherd's crook), tree to left, TROAC in exergue.[/QUOTE]
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