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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4001466, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Three months will have meant dozens, even hundreds of obv. dies for some engravers, surely enough to develop a habitual depiction? Not that I have seen any early Severan portraits that I think undoubtedly reflect Didius&#039; features.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the straight hairs in some portraits of 193 seem very likely to indicate an early date.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know no one has yet attempted to count or estimate the number of denarius obv. dies used for Septimius in 193 or any later year.</p><p><br /></p><p>The order of the rev. types of Septimius, Domna, and Albinus in 193 is not obvious. For Septimius LIBERAL AVG COS and SAEC FRVGIF COS might be regarded as early since they omit TR P on aurei and denarii, but (a) on the bronze coins the same types add TR P and (b) the same two types and VICT AVG TR P COS also occur on rare denari with Septimius&#039; IMP II obv. legend, a sure sign that these three types were still in use at the very end of 193.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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