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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1832008, member: 19463&quot;]The &#039;U.S. Private Collection&#039; mentioned is mine.&nbsp; The reverse for Septimius exists with both COS and COSII at the end but both of mine are real dogs with little legend other than the end that makes a difference.&nbsp; Martin&#039;s coin is as nice as I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; and has all the legend mine lack.&nbsp;&nbsp; Copying the reverse including legends of Lucius Verus always struck me as &#039;special&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would not expect there to have been many denarii circulating in Egypt at the start of 194 because it was a closed economy with their own money.&nbsp; When the mint was tasked to make denarii to ship off to pay the army in the East, the mint workers probably scrambled around looking for examples of what a denarius was.&nbsp; Apparently one was our Lucius Verus.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>COS II[ATTACH=full]302756[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>COS (no II) - This is the coin recorded by Bickford-Smith.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]302757[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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