An early Septimius S. Portrait

[Arminius]

From his first year issue of sesterti - looking younger than usual:

Septimius Severus, Rome mint, 193 AD.,
Æ Sestertius (28-30 mm / 18,93 g),
Obv.: [IM]P CAES L SEPT - SEV P[ERT] AVG , laureate head of Septimius Severus right.
Rev.: FIDEI [LEG TR P COS] / S - C , Fides standing left, holding Victory and standard.
RIC IV, I, 180, 651 (scarce) ; BMC 469 ; Coh 147 corr. ; Hill 36 .

Maybe Curtis can use the information for his data.

regards

[curtislclay]

Obv. die 33 in my thesis, known with three Fidei Leg rev. dies.  A somewhat unusual portrait, I recognized the die. 

Hard to ID the rev. die because of the legend loss, the position of the letters being one of the best distinguishers of dies.

[Bill S]

Obv. die 33 in my thesis, .....

You've piqued my interest.  What is the title/topic of your thesis?

[curtislclay]

The Roman coinage of the first five years of Septimius Severus' reign, including die studies of the entire gold and bronze coinage, submitted at Oxford in 1972.