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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3452282, member: 99456&quot;]This<a href="https://www.academia.edu/35642285/Peculiarities_and_Errors_in_the_Legends_Attributed_to_Antioch_Denarii_of_Pescennius_Niger_and_of_Septimius_Severus_Notae_Numismaticae_VIII_2013_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/35642285/Peculiarities_and_Errors_in_the_Legends_Attributed_to_Antioch_Denarii_of_Pescennius_Niger_and_of_Septimius_Severus_Notae_Numismaticae_VIII_2013_" rel="nofollow"> article</a> by Bartosz Awianowicz is interesting for its list of variants and discussion of shared engravers, and literacy in Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Peculiarities and Errors in the Legends Attributed to Antioch Denarii of Pescennius Niger and of Septimius Severus, Notae Numismaticae VIII (2013)</i></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>&quot;The above errors and other peculiarities of the legends of the denarii of both Pescennius Niger and Septimius Severus from the location identified as the mint of Antioch corroborate Buttrey’s conclusions, in whose opinion some of them are so similar that “they must have been cut by the same engravers,” who would often have made the same mistakes.&quot;</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>&quot;CAE appeared on the obverses of the denarii of Niger and Severus as a result of the customary practice used by Greek-speaking engravers, who would have likely worked before on the dies of provincial coins from the mints of Antioch or some other centres in Asia Minor and Syria&quot;</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>A reinforcement for me of [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER]&#039;s suggestion for &quot;Antioch&quot; as the relevant mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortuna as tyche/pax? another link with &quot;Antioch&quot;?</p><p>Date: sometime ~193-194?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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