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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caesar_Augustus, post: 3231848, member: 87659&quot;]Beautiful coins, Martin! I always wonder which letters are chosen to be removed and why. Was there some sort of a system in the language for shortening words, or was it an arbitrary decision of the die engraver. </p><p><br /></p><p>To add to the thread, here is my one and only Emesa mint Septimius Severus denarius with the shortened words in the obverse legend. </p><p><img src="https://badlight.github.io/josephscoins/images/septimiusseverus1/septimiusseverus1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>194 - 195 A.D., Emesa Mint</p><p>3.20g, 18.0mm, 11H</p><p><b>Obverse:</b> IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II,</p><p><i>Head of Septimius Severus, laureate, right</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:</b> VIRTVTE AVG,</p><p><i>Virtus, helmeted, draped, standing left, holding spear in right hand and parazonium in left hand</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reference:</b> RIC IV Septimius Severus 431[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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