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<p>[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 2987573, member: 91820"]Wow! These are some fantastic coins! The Julia Domna with the "exposed" behind is lovely - I used to have an example, but sadly I sold it because the condition wasn't to my liking. I have since modified my standard and look more to the coin and less to the wear. It is very good that I have this attitude since early sestertii of Septimius Severus in higher grades are almost impossible to find. The reason? The celators didn't use much relief, so a little wear went a long way. I have noticed that this appears to be a continuation of methods used for the sestertii of Commodus. In fact, there is a small group of Commodus sestertii (I'll post the references) that are both small, poorly made and lacking relief. This also appears on the denarii of Commodus, and reflects what may be a general breakdown in government - clearly someone wasn't paying attention. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I had wanted to add was this - if you examine the portraiture on my "Pax" sestertius above you will find a marked similarity in the portraiture to many of the balkan provincial coins of Septimius - the "pointed" beard style is directly imitated, especially in the provincial coins of Markianopolis on the Wildwinds site. If I ever have time I would like to compare the styles of the coins, especially the sestertii coming from the Rome mint with the portraiture on the bronze coins from the provinces. Although it is not possible to prove this conclusively, I believe that the portrait styles followed the Rome mint. I have a pretty good scrapbook with scans of the sestertii of Septimius - all I need now is the time to do the research and write something up!!</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. I really like the flavian sestertii - but these are too expensive for me to collect![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 2987573, member: 91820"]Wow! These are some fantastic coins! The Julia Domna with the "exposed" behind is lovely - I used to have an example, but sadly I sold it because the condition wasn't to my liking. I have since modified my standard and look more to the coin and less to the wear. It is very good that I have this attitude since early sestertii of Septimius Severus in higher grades are almost impossible to find. The reason? The celators didn't use much relief, so a little wear went a long way. I have noticed that this appears to be a continuation of methods used for the sestertii of Commodus. In fact, there is a small group of Commodus sestertii (I'll post the references) that are both small, poorly made and lacking relief. This also appears on the denarii of Commodus, and reflects what may be a general breakdown in government - clearly someone wasn't paying attention. What I had wanted to add was this - if you examine the portraiture on my "Pax" sestertius above you will find a marked similarity in the portraiture to many of the balkan provincial coins of Septimius - the "pointed" beard style is directly imitated, especially in the provincial coins of Markianopolis on the Wildwinds site. If I ever have time I would like to compare the styles of the coins, especially the sestertii coming from the Rome mint with the portraiture on the bronze coins from the provinces. Although it is not possible to prove this conclusively, I believe that the portrait styles followed the Rome mint. I have a pretty good scrapbook with scans of the sestertii of Septimius - all I need now is the time to do the research and write something up!! P.S. I really like the flavian sestertii - but these are too expensive for me to collect![/QUOTE]
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