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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7896269, member: 84744&quot;]I&#039;ve wondered about this!&nbsp; Thanks RC, and for all the other excellent info too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m facing a very serious health issue at the moment (will write about it soon), so I could do with a lot of Spes.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a bunch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363424[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian As, RIC 350 (Titus)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363425[/ATTACH]</p><p>This Sev Alex as Caesar INDVLGENTIA type features Spes. (Denarius, obviously.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363426[/ATTACH]</p><p>Grown-up Sev Alex, AE As.&nbsp; (One of his more common middle bronze types.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363428[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carus, Ticinum ant.&nbsp; With Greek &quot;KARVS&quot; spelling.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363429[/ATTACH]</p><p>Alexandrian tet of Maximian with Elpis, ex Emmett (295/6, last year that Alexandrian tets were issued)</p><p><br /></p><p>And a couple of interesting imitations:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363432[/ATTACH]</p><p>This one is weird... the engraving of the bust and figure of Spes is very professional, but the legends are seriously messed up: IMP CAE L SEP SEVR PERT II / PONΛE ISPLTI (!). Must be an imitation.&nbsp; A talented but illiterate artist?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363430[/ATTACH]</p><p>&quot;Barbarous radiate&quot; imitating Gallienus, Spes reverse (missing head!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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