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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3617251, member: 31620&quot;]The following coin is part of a scarce sub-series of the output of the eastern mints of Septimius Severus. These coins have reverse legends that end with II COS.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus denarius</b></p><p>Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG II COS, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– BONAE SPEI II COS, Spes standing holding flower and lifting skirt</p><p>Minted in Emesa, 194 - 195 A.D.</p><p>References:– RIC -. RSC -. BMC -.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.53g, 20.31mm, 0o </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ib_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Given the issues with the coin I was struggling to fully read the obverse legend and originally attributed it as ending AVG II C, which is a known legend variant but the dies didn&#039;t match those known for AVG II C. I discussed the coin with Curtis Clay and he asked me to send him a plaster cast of my coin, which I did. He was then able to confirm that the obverse die is a die match to a coin from his own collection which Curtis bought from Michael Kelly&#039;s collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG II CO-S, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– FORTVNAE REDVCI II COS, Fortuna standing left holding rudder and cornucopia</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969176[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This obverse die was previously only know from the single example owned by Curtis. The obverse die match allowed the reading of the obverse legend to be confirmed as AVG II CO-S. This brought the number of known examples of the obverse legend variant to two with two different reverse types.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years later I was able to obtain the following coin, which despite the many issues can be seen to be a double die match to Curtis&#039;s coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969185[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Both of my coins have issues but they are very special to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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