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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 5151885, member: 91820&quot;]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis - thank you for responding&nbsp; -&nbsp; I had meant that there did not seem to be many Septimius Severus sestertii for sale now - I am always complaining about the coin market - either there are not enough sestertii available, or too many to buy them all, or too expensive, or the condition of the coins available is not that great, or too good which means too expensive etc. - my mother used to call me a &quot;kvetch&quot; and she is correct about that&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I have said many time, about three or four years ago I took a shot at trying to put together a complete collection of the 100 different types of Septimius Severus sestertii listed in RIC - an impossible task.&nbsp; But I thought it was worth a try to see how many&nbsp; could get - but I am stuck on&nbsp; 37 and finding more has been a difficult task - I have not bought another one for months.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also you had asked on the Forum site for information on my Geta as caesar sestertius - RIC 124. It is 25.53 grams and 32.5mm.&nbsp; I do not know how to measure die axis but it is completely opposite from US coins - when you turn it the reverse is the same as the obverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>On another subject, I just bought an example of Geta RIC 167 - heavily smoothed&nbsp; - I&#039;ll send a photograph and information on weight/size etc. when I get it. Also I have not forgotten that I had promised to send you my example of Septimius Severus IMP X Victory for making a cast, which is on my list of things to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a request for you - some years back you purchased an unlisted Caracalla sestertius from Dionysius on German ebay.&nbsp; I think it was a sestertius example of of RIC 414.&nbsp; I was the unhappy underbidder on the coin, but forgot to make a photograph of it for my books of Severan sestertii. Too bad there weren&#039;t two examples available - that was some find!&nbsp; I assume that the coins we only know of as an As or Dupondius were also struck as sestertii but none have survived. Could you post or send a photograph of the coin along with weight and size for the book I keep on Caracalla imperial bronze (and other sestertii)?</p><p><br /></p><p>And now finally to what I had said about the Septimius Severus die - I have two sestertii from the same obverse die - RIC 652 and RIC 656 - not so unusual.&nbsp; But I thought I had found the same die on a third type, which I have to find on ACSEARCH, and it seemed to be unusually prevalent - which only means that more were found - simple chance.&nbsp; I thought it would make a short article - any excuse to post photographs of Severan sestertii![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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