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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 8477689, member: 91820&quot;]Curtis - I just picked up an example of a Caracalla sestertius - RIC 398(b) - half the obverse inscription is not visible but it just so happens that I have a die match of the obverse, with Securitas on the reverse.&nbsp; This positively identifies the coin as 398(b) - and I have yet to find another example, although I have not checked out the database at the British Museum.&nbsp; There are coins claimed to be 398(b) on acsearch.info, but on closer examination all but (perhaps - a CNG example) one is not.&nbsp; I will be doing an article on this and one other aspect of the sestertii of Caracalla - the immediate change in his portraiture once Geta was executed - this weekend and hopefully you will find these interesting enough to comment.&nbsp; I had thought that the days of being able to find affordable interesting Severan sestertii were over since I had not been able to find anything since January but clearly not quite yet!&nbsp; Blake[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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