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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3065911, member: 88829&quot;]Mattingly in<i> Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum (BMCRE)</i> lists and illustrates a coin with this reverse and a similar obverse with the same inscription up to PP, but which concludes with &quot;I&quot; instead of &quot;COS&quot;.&nbsp; This is listed in the section for &quot;Various Irregular Issues&quot; and given the number 1031.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seaby lists #1031 in <i>Roman Silver Coins</i> with the Cohen number 379b, but without COS on the obverse.&nbsp; However, he lists two obverse inscriptions (he labels as CIII and CIIII) ending in COS III and COS IIII.&nbsp; Your coin is broken where the Roman numeral would begin, so we cannot tell if it might be one of these.&nbsp; Unfortunately, neither of these seems to be paired with your reverse type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on his overall treatment of these features, Mattingly would class your coin as something other than a regular issue of an official Roman mint.&nbsp; As such any number of inscriptional variants are possible, but he would say were not regularly issued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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