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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2629859, member: 19463&quot;]Some coins get no respect.&nbsp; The previous owner of these four listed them as &quot;Irregular denarii&quot; from an &quot;Irregular&quot; mint.&nbsp; I agree with one.&nbsp; Some people can not accept a coin with &#039;alternative&#039; spellings or reverse selections as &#039;official&#039; but we are not dealing with the Rome mint here.&nbsp; Theys are from the Syrian mints usually called Emesa and Laodicea but I would not be surprised to see those names modified before too long if anyone ever publishes an update to RIC IV or BMCRE V.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is the one that really is &#039;Irregular&#039;.&nbsp; The spelling is not bad but the style is simply wrong.&nbsp; There are several styles from &#039;Emesa&#039; but this is not one.&nbsp; The coin is as good silver as the regular coins but just a bit on the wild side.&nbsp; The obverse legend shows CEV in place of SEV which is not unknown from Emesa and understandable from a mint full of Greek speakers. They got two of the S&#039;s right but the third caused a slip up.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578530[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Second is a normal Emesa style denarius but the reverse is VENER VICT.&nbsp; The Rome mint never would issue a girly reverse for an Emperor but Emesa did not hold to separation of the sexes on coin types.&nbsp; There are many coins of Julia Domna with boy reverses.&nbsp; This is equal time. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]578531[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are Laodicea variations with Fortuna Reduci.&nbsp; Martin has shown several of these as I recall and I have two other versions with the same spelling swapping the E and D making REDVC RDEVC.&nbsp; The first shows Fortuna standing holding two cornucopiae and has the IMPI---I split on the obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578532[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The second shows the same RDEVC but with Fortuna as Pietas sacrificing and a more normal IMPII.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578533[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, these are my old coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is Fortuna as Hilaritas with long palm.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578537[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>...and two Fortuna seated with different obverse arrangements.&nbsp; his is not a full set of these spelling &#039;errors&#039;.&nbsp; Isn&#039; it odd the same mistake keeps recurring?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]578534[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]578535[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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