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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2701552, member: 19463&quot;]Who would want coins from Caesarea?&nbsp; Me.&nbsp; </p><p>Year two coins of Septimius with the Nike reverse show the date as R for B but the mountain has a proper B.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]608095[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]608096[/ATTACH]</p><p>There are also nice bronzes from Caesarea (also year 2). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]608097[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Did I understand we were not to post Domna?&nbsp; Bad me.&nbsp; Year 5.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]608100[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>From the same year 5 is Caracalla as Caesar.&nbsp; This is a silver coin but very black in tone.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]608101[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I know it is not Severan but I liked the same coin that started this thread.&nbsp; Unlike the Septimius family issues with date in exergue, the Commodus finishes the encircling Pat Patri legend with TPI upside down.&nbsp; &nbsp; All three of us have coins dated&nbsp; Upatos 4 but my delta ended up on the left of the star while both icerain and mat have the delta on the right side.&nbsp; Commodus did not include the city name on the coins. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]608102[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a friend locally who collects nothing but Caesarea.&nbsp; He has some very different things.&nbsp; All we have shown here are common but there are some of his that he got 50 years ago and says he has not seen since.&nbsp; It is a worthy specialty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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