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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1817669, member: 19463&quot;]Whether writing the new RIC or organizing your personal holdings, the first important step for the so called &#039;Emesa&#039; mint is to decide how to organize the obverse legends.&nbsp; Most of us agree that the series must start with the &#039;1st legend&#039; coins ending in AVG with no dating device and ends with the legends ending in COSII.&nbsp; The problem comes when we have to decide which of the others (II COS, II C, II CO, COS I, COSI--I etc.) have separate positions in a chronology&nbsp; and which are just variations.&nbsp; Similarly, how much importance do we place on the differences between PERT, PERTE and PERET from the so called &#039;Laodicea&#039; mint.&nbsp; Then we have to decide if these two mints are one, two or more mints and how to separate them if we are not to accept the two mint RIC/BMC system.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My tendency is to continue with the two mint separation and lump all the middle legends into one group since so many of them are linked by certain reverse dies.&nbsp; I might need to rethink the split COSI--I obverses which seem to be more a part of the later COSII series than the other middle types.&nbsp;&nbsp; I remain completely unsurprised when we find a reverse known for an IIC obverse with, say, a COSI or IICO obverse since all these came and went at the mint in a very short period of time (probably early 194 AD).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few stylistically oddball obverses that seem only to come with certain reverses and quite a few spelling variations which may just be errors.&nbsp; There are coins with dots in predictable places which the current leading scholars consider to be of no importance.&nbsp; We can agree or not but I prefer to record them as if they were not random.&nbsp; Traditional lists that avoid too much scholarship follow Cohen order which is alphabetical by reverse legend and ignores all dots, spacings and mintmarks.&nbsp; I prefer to follow RIC to a point but also prefer to separate out those middle legends. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can see how the questions might weigh down a listing but we are not proposing a study of the coins but only a list of what we have or know to exist.&nbsp; That makes it easier.&nbsp; Enough that we will do it???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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