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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 740344, member: 19463&quot;]<b>Septimius Severus</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Reasons:</p><p>A lot is known about him.&nbsp; He was an interesting guy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He was a success at what he did while he lived but failed miserably leaving the empire to his kids.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He has many coin types from at least four mints (unless you count Provincials where the count is huge).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>His coins are cheap compared to other rulers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Many &#039;special&#039; coins can be cherrypicked from dealers who do not know how to tell the rare from the common.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I bought a coin of his in 1963 that turned out to be one of my better buys and still own it: <a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/feac6.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/feac6.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/feac6.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Over the years it has been joined by many others that I feel lucky to have found: <a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/bride.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/bride.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/bride.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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