Another Pertinax denarius...:D 9_9...but Alexandrian this time.. right Doug?!?..

I've been awaitin' fer this'un.....i bought this one out of spite..but i LOVE it! ^^...i'm glad @dougsmit was educated on this type( and mentioned it), cause even after i bought it i was thinking, 'this doesn't lQQk exactly kee rect...(bug eyes).....thank you DOUG SMITH!........ok...now, starting tomorrow its on to Didius Julieanus...(and i'll be awearin' this here shirt)(EDIT: Barry informs me this ones from Rome)

POST YER COINS N COMMENTS PEEPS! Pertinax denarius, Rome mint, 193CE, OBV: emperors bust right, Legend IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG., REV:OPI DEVIN T R P COSII, Ops seated left, holding ears of grain in right hand, left hand on arm of throne, 17mm, 2.47gms Ref. RIC lV-8a

 

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Hi,

Mine.


See Bickford-Smith, "The Imperial Mints in the East for Septimius Severus," RIN XCVI (1994/1995), p 54.

- Broucheion.

 

Ominus, your coin is from Rome.

Barry Murphy

 

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..ok ...thanks Barry! ...

 

..eh..what??..i didn't hear ya Donna ....oh, and @dougsmit never said this one was from Alexandria...

 

I have no idea why my phone apparently posted something or what it was, so I deleted it. It was the middle of the night; what can I say?

 

oh....i understand that perfectly ma'am...

 

This is a style thing. If there is a difference, the Rome ones seem less common but I prefer the wild and wooly Alexandrian style. Broucheion's is Alexandria as is mine. I do not have a Rome mint Pertinax.


For the record: There is one other common Alexandria Pertinax.
PROVID DEOR COS II


I have a serious question about when these were made. Pertinax was dead about the time the mint could have known to strike for him. I can not help thinking that the coins were continued in production after his death while Alexandria was deciding whether to support Pescennius or Septimius. The number we see in market strikes me as supporting an extended issue.