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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3561070, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s an interesting coin, indeed,! [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] . You can read more about these coins -- as well as about two temples of <i>Fortuna Obsequeas</i>, one of which is conjectured to have been restored by Antoninus Pius -- in Stevenson&#039;s <i><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Dictionary%20Of%20Roman%20Coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Dictionary%20Of%20Roman%20Coins" rel="nofollow">Dictionary of Roman Coins</a></i>, <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Dictionary_Of_Roman_Coins/dictionaryByPage.asp?page=396" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Dictionary_Of_Roman_Coins/dictionaryByPage.asp?page=396" rel="nofollow">p. 396</a>. You have to take this antiquarian reference book with a grain of salt, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin almost certainly reads FORTVNA OPSEQVENS, with a P, not a B,* but the OBSEQVENS variant is described in Cohen. The British Museum has <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=286A%20Antoninus%20Pius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=286A%20Antoninus%20Pius" rel="nofollow">six examples</a> with TR P XXII (or illegible) titulature (BMCRE4 932-937). The one they chose to be the plate coin is <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210010&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=932+Antoninus+Pius&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210010&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=932+Antoninus+Pius&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">932</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]946780[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]946781[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*I have to laugh at Stevenson for anachronistically arguing with actual native Latin speakers in antiquity that they spelled OPSEQVENS incorrectly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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