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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4000998, member: 89514&quot;]An attractive coin, with full flan, legends virtually 100% complete, and almost no circulation wear, though there is mild die wear on the obv. die!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am skeptical of your suggestion that the portrait has been re-engraved from Didius Julianus, however. I see no clear suggestions of that emperor&#039;s features, and if such were present, then maybe just because the engraver was used to producing portraits of Didius. Since the Virtus rev. type was carried on by Septimius in 194, presumably it lasted until the end of 193, but we can&#039;t be sure it goes back to the very first days of his reign. The obv. legend clearly hasn&#039;t been re-engraved from that of Didius, so I prefer to believe that the same applies to the portrait, unless a denarius of Didius showing the same obv. die but before modification can be discovered![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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