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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4675794, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Reka Devnia hoard, there were 27 denarii of the Elephant type with IMP VIII and 30 denarii with IMP VIIII, allowing us to estimate that the type was introduced maybe a couple of months before news of IMP VIIII reached Rome, and that it continued for about the same length of time after that news had arrived. I see no difficulty at all in supposing that the elephant type and its companion PROFECTIO AVG were produced continuously over a period of about four months, of course always referring to the same upcoming and then actual departure of the emperor from Rome and the same games that he held to celebrate that departure.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most likely occasion for Septimius&#039; IMP VIIII, as I explained on Forum: his general Laetus&#039; breaking of the Parthian siege of Nisibis, accomplished before the emperor himself arrived in the East.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s obvious that Septimius was accepting imperatorial acclamations for each of his victories over Niger and then Albinus, so of course he would also accept one for his capture of Byzantium, his final victory over the two pretenders and then Niger&#039;s hangers-on in Byzantium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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