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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3780839, member: 19463&quot;]Septimius Severus denarius / Mars Pater</p><p>The COS II coins were guessed to be Emesa by Mattingly in RIC/BMCRE but more recent scholars deny that attribution.&nbsp; Some guess Antioch but that hardly has any basis beyond being their guess.&nbsp; This coin is a COS II but the style is not typical so could be something else or barbarous.&nbsp; My guess (and only that) is that these coins were produced by a mint travelling with the emperor and not physically located in the same city all the time.&nbsp; I have no problem using &#039;Emesa&#039; with the quotes meaning &quot;the mint traditionally known as &#039;Emesa&#039; but we don&#039;t really know&quot;.&nbsp; This is an unknown variant of an unknown mint location.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009926[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: Greek coin of an unknown city[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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