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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3994612, member: 19463&quot;]While nothing will ever be proven, I believe the theory that the Alexandria Pertinax coins were continued after his death or entirely posthumous is as good a guess as we have.&nbsp; I am not convinced your Septimius is a rare AVG version rather than the more common AVI without looking at possible die links either way.&nbsp; I have not done any die study even comparing my coins.</p><p>&nbsp;The first one has completely lost the last letter so I consider it an I while the second two show the I to a sufficient degree to be sure.&nbsp; I&#039;d say half of the Alexandria Legionaries I have seen have been on small enough flans that the last letter is uncertain.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1051703[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1051704[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1051705[/ATTACH] </p><p>Of my four, only the one below is AVG.&nbsp; This specimen is ex. Roger Bickford-Smith and as clear as any G coin I have seen.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1051706[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While on the subject, I also believe all the Commodus denarii from Alexandria were struck after his death.&nbsp; Again, I do not see it being proven either way.&nbsp; The study of these denarii was set back thirty years when Roger died and I am not aware of other publications since his as mentioned by Berk. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those who have volume III of Roman Silver Coins can see a nice AVI illustrated as #262.&nbsp; That coin was sold in the great Arnold sale in 1984 where it was also illustrated and misread as a Rome mint ITAL coin.&nbsp; These are good examples of what happens when you read what you want to see rather than what you do see.&nbsp; The Arnold coin was sold again in the 1997 Michael Kelly sale by Spink who similarly failed to read the coin. I would like to know how many certain&nbsp; AVG coins exist.&nbsp; Barry Murphy had one that read (LEG) IIII IT AVG but I do not know who has it now. </p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssalex3.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssalex3.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssalex3.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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