Pertinax to Severus Alexander
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After the murder of Commodus it is Civil War, the Legions of the East against the Legions of the West, Senate against Military,....

Pertinax (193 AD)

Didius Iulianus (193 AD). Denarius, Sestertius, Aureus

Pescennius Niger (193-194 AD)

Denarius

  Niger has usually very poor silver ! Not pretty but likely original


The coin above is likely a modern high quality forgergy, beware !

Clodius Albinus as Caesar  and as Augustus (195-197 AD)


 

The Dynasty of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus (193-211 AD), in the Aureus with his wife Julia Domna, and his two sons Caracalla and Geta
medaillon
aureus
Sestertius Denarius


Denarius (the above coin may be a modern struck forgery of very high quality as a viewer pointed out, beware !)

Caracalla as Caesar

Caracalla and his parents

Caracalla and his brother Geta

Carcalla (210-217 AD)
young Caracalla
 


Caracalla around the death of his father Septimius Severus, celebrating the Victory in Britannia, aureus to the left, denarius reverse to the right

Caracalla (older portrait)

Sestertius form Caracalla's last years
(image CNG coins 2005)

Geta (198-212 AD)


Macrinus (217-218 AD)

Diadumenianus (218 AD)

Elagabalus (218-222 AD)


 

Severus Alexander (222-235 AD)

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