A New Roman Commemorative Purchase
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I lowered my condition standards to pick up the Septimius Severus denarius coin shown below. Got hooked with the song-and-dance I guess. Maybe I can up-grade someday but maybe not.
Freeman & Sear: " When Severus and Caracalla celebrated the 10th anniversary of their joint reign in AD 206, they marked the occasion with a highly unusual public spectacle: A giant ship with collapsible sides was built in the Colosseum arena. At a given signal, the sides fell away releasing an array of exotic wild animals for the crowds entertainment. The event in commemorated on the reverse of this coin, which depicts the ship and several beasts. For added measure, four racing chariots are also shown."
denarius, 2.8g, RIC 274, RF 22-1, 206 A.D. ex Frank Kovacs
obv. SEVERVS PIVS AVG laureate head r.
rev. LAETITIA TEMPORVM ship in colosseum, quadriga, animals
Freeman & Sear: " When Severus and Caracalla celebrated the 10th anniversary of their joint reign in AD 206, they marked the occasion with a highly unusual public spectacle: A giant ship with collapsible sides was built in the Colosseum arena. At a given signal, the sides fell away releasing an array of exotic wild animals for the crowds entertainment. The event in commemorated on the reverse of this coin, which depicts the ship and several beasts. For added measure, four racing chariots are also shown."
denarius, 2.8g, RIC 274, RF 22-1, 206 A.D. ex Frank Kovacs
obv. SEVERVS PIVS AVG laureate head r.
rev. LAETITIA TEMPORVM ship in colosseum, quadriga, animals
Richard Frajola
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Nice Coin.
Cool coin
It's amazing how we can know of such an event that happened so many years ago....
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Rick
1836 Capped Liberty
dime. My oldest US
detecting find so far.
I dig almost every
signal I get for the most
part. Go figure...
I am a new collector of Romans and have a very small collection. Figuring it a ten year collection, I decided to buy only the highest possible grades and if coins don't exist in that grade, I'd live without.
What I meant was that this coin had such a neat story, I compromised as I'm sure it exists nicer. I judge collections (of stamps, my profession) by the lowest condition piece. In that sense I am not sure the compromise was justified.
Add-on: The reason, beyond the good story, that I grabbed it is that in Seaby book it seemed to have enough premium over the more common coins (at 225 pounds) that I thought I might not find a better example in the next ten years.
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