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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4125073, member: 89514&quot;]Blake,</p><p><br /></p><p>I see your coin as being from the same obv. die as BMC 603, but a different rev. die, a new die combination to the material included in my 1972 master&#039;s thesis on the Severan coinage of 193-8.</p><p><br /></p><p>The PROFECTIO AVG type was introduced in spring 197 to commemorate Septimius&#039; departure on his second Parthian expedition, after he defeated Albinus in Feb. 196 and returned to Rome that summer. The traditional date Feb. 197 for Albinus&#039; defeat is an old error, as I was able to prove in my thesis. You can find a detailed summary of my arguments on Forum Ancient Coins, search Battle of Lugdunum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius&#039; sestertii were fairly common from 193 to late in 196, but from then until early in 198, their volume was substantially reduced, to about 1/3 of the previous level. The PROFECTIO type falls into the period of reduced volume for sestertius production; I found only five sestertius rev. dies for the type. Early in 198 the volume of sestertius production was cut back even more drastically, to a mere dribble, not to be revived until 210.</p><p><br /></p><p>How can I access your article on your IMP X sestertius? I don&#039;t find any reference to articles on the CoinTalk homepage. Search Forum Ancient Coins for Septimius IMP X sestertii for my own article on these coins, written on the occasion of my completion of the set of all known sestertius rev. types with that date, though a couple of other types can be hypothesized as also having been struck, so are possibly still awaiting discovery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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