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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 5132338, member: 96898&quot;]Your impressions on wear match my own. It is easy to find immaculate denarii of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna that can have seen hardly any circulation. For sestertii, on the other hand, examples like your coins or my specimen below are on the better end of the spectrum of what I have seen. I don&#039;t know if this observation can be generalized – but if so, it might have interesting implications for the circulation patterns of different denominations in the early Severan era.</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1204244[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, AE sestertius, 195–196 AD, Rome mint. Obv: L SEPT SE[V P]ERT AVG IMP VII;&nbsp; 29.5mm, bust of Septimius Severus, laureate, with drapery on l. shoulder, r. Rev: [DIVI] M PII F [P M] TR P III COS II P P; Felicitas, draped, standing l., foot on prow, holding caduceus in r, hand and cornucopiae in l. hand. 29.5mm, 20.23g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 701b.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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