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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3927360, member: 19463"]Mine is Ticinum with shorter legend. I bought it long ago because I 'needed' a Constantius I as Augustus. He died so soon after his elevation to Augustus that any of those coins seems a bit special despite RIC rating this one C2. I have never followed the rarities within groups out of my specialty so I do not know how hard they are to find. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035240[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That strikes me as a better reason than I had to buy my Severus II. I had a few hundred Septimius Severus and a dozen Severus Alexander (Who was Severus I?) so I thought I needed a Severus II.</p><p> [ATTACH=full]1035243[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Years later, I bought a second one (from Rome) but I suspect the reason was mostly that the Moneta reverse was not a Genius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035242[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3927360, member: 19463"]Mine is Ticinum with shorter legend. I bought it long ago because I 'needed' a Constantius I as Augustus. He died so soon after his elevation to Augustus that any of those coins seems a bit special despite RIC rating this one C2. I have never followed the rarities within groups out of my specialty so I do not know how hard they are to find. [ATTACH=full]1035240[/ATTACH] That strikes me as a better reason than I had to buy my Severus II. I had a few hundred Septimius Severus and a dozen Severus Alexander (Who was Severus I?) so I thought I needed a Severus II. [ATTACH=full]1035243[/ATTACH] Years later, I bought a second one (from Rome) but I suspect the reason was mostly that the Moneta reverse was not a Genius. [ATTACH=full]1035242[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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