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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TTerrier, post: 2890293, member: 76835&quot;]While I focus on Severus Alexander it&#039;s hard to resist Julia Domna and Septimius Severus because they have so many interesting reverse types.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]694388[/ATTACH] </p><p>IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG, Julia Domna draped bust right</p><p>PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left head facing, Hand on breast and holding long transverse sceptre</p><p>3.03 g&nbsp; 19mm&nbsp; RIC 385&nbsp; RSC 172a&nbsp; struck under Caracalla at Rome</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this one up because I was unfamiliar with the reverse type, which I now understand to represent the virtue of chastity or modesty.&nbsp; At least Caracalla had enough sense left to associate these traits with his mother and not himself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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