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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3211449, member: 75937"]Won this one today at auction for a good price. One doesn't come across this one every day. It's an obverse and reverse die-match to the specimen in the British Museum, too!</p><p><br /></p><p>These Severan issues were formerly attributed to Laodicea but, as we've <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/domna-denarius-minted-in-antioch-what-happened-to-the-laodicea-theory.324625/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/domna-denarius-minted-in-antioch-what-happened-to-the-laodicea-theory.324625/">discussed previously</a>, modern scholarship assigns them to the mint in Antiochia ad Orontem. Coins of Julia Domna from this mint can be distinguished by the presence of a loop at the base of her neck, above the shoulder. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Antioch mint Severans or whatever you feel is relevant! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]833951[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.87 g, 18 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 196-202 (or later).</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CERERI FRVGIF, Ceres seated left, holding corn-ears in right hand and long vertical torch in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC 636; BMCRE 592; Cohen 14; RCV --; CRE 300.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1207491&partId=1&searchText=Domna+CERERI+FRVGIF+denarius&page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1207491&partId=1&searchText=Domna+CERERI+FRVGIF+denarius&page=1" rel="nofollow">specimen in the British Museum</a> with which it is a die-match:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]833952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3211449, member: 75937"]Won this one today at auction for a good price. One doesn't come across this one every day. It's an obverse and reverse die-match to the specimen in the British Museum, too! These Severan issues were formerly attributed to Laodicea but, as we've [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/domna-denarius-minted-in-antioch-what-happened-to-the-laodicea-theory.324625/']discussed previously[/URL], modern scholarship assigns them to the mint in Antiochia ad Orontem. Coins of Julia Domna from this mint can be distinguished by the presence of a loop at the base of her neck, above the shoulder. Post your Antioch mint Severans or whatever you feel is relevant! [ATTACH=full]833951[/ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD 193-217. Roman AR denarius, 3.87 g, 18 mm, 6 h. Antioch, AD 196-202 (or later). Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right. Rev: CERERI FRVGIF, Ceres seated left, holding corn-ears in right hand and long vertical torch in left hand. Refs: RIC 636; BMCRE 592; Cohen 14; RCV --; CRE 300. The [URL='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1207491&partId=1&searchText=Domna+CERERI+FRVGIF+denarius&page=1']specimen in the British Museum[/URL] with which it is a die-match: [ATTACH=full]833952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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