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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 6282257, member: 84905&quot;]With his curly hair and frizzy beard Septimius Severus is usually one of the most recognizable emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I really like those early portraits of 193/194 when he looked like one of the other emperors of that time. Here is a recent purchase of mine. Note his straight hair and the more &quot;civilised&quot; beard. I think he looks at bit like Antoninus Pius. The engravers clearly had no portrait to work from when they produced the dies for the first emissions:</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP CAE L SEPT SEV PERT AVG // VICT AVG TR P COS</p><p>3.37 gr.</p><p>NGC grade ch XF</p><p>Date: 193/194</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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