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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3067075, member: 31620&quot;]That Domna is certainly special.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few II COS reverses and acquire any that I can when others with much deeper pockets than me don&#039;t drive me off them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis is aware of two reverse dies for the BONI EVENTVS variant. There are apparently 5 known examples under Septimius Severus and another like your which was produced for Domna which is in Vienna. All the Severus examples come from the A.D. 193 issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Vienna example is unfortunately not illustrated in the digitisation of their collection which would allow a die comparison. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have one of the known Severus coins from a different (the other) reverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ly_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The BM has one too which comes from the same reverse die as yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]770106[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Barry has had two examples (one from each reverse die).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]770109[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]770110[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The last remaining Severus example known to me belonged to Roger Bickford-Smith, which was ex P.V. Hill Coll.&nbsp; I am unable to illustrate this example however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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