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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6908409, member: 75937&quot;]Lovely example of that issue, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] , with a particularly appealing reverse. Very appealing antiquities, too!</p><p><br /></p><p>As you know, the coin was issued by two mints, the main mint in Rome and by an unknown eastern mint, traditionally attributed to Laodicea but more recently to Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-saecvli-felicitas-denarius-rome-jpg.1024199/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.61 g, 17.7 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 196-202.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: SAECVLI FELICITAS, Isis, wearing polos, standing right, foot on prow(?) (stool?), holding wreath and infant Horus; behind them, a ship’s rudder leans against an altar.</p><p>Refs: RIC 577; BMCRE 75-82; Hill 504; Cohen 174; RCV 6606.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-saecvli-felicitas-denarius-laodicea-jpg.1023769/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.07 g, 18.2 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Uncertain Eastern mint (Antioch?), AD 196-202.</p><p>Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: SAECVLI FELICITAS, Isis, wearing polos, standing right, left foot on prow, right hand on breast and holding infant Horus on left arm; behind them, rudder.</p><p>Refs: RIC 645; BMCRE 618; Cohen 174; RCV --; CRE 353.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a number of features on the reverse that differ between the issues from the two mints:</p><p><br /></p><p>Isis wears a polos on the Rome mint coin, but not on the eastern mint one. It&#039;s unclear on my example whether she is bare-headed and simply has harsh waves in her hair like Julia Domna herself, or whether she is wearing some sort of radiate crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, on the Rome mint example, Isis holds a wreath over her breast, whereas she holds no such object on the eastern mint example, but simply holds her arm up, placing her hand on her (clothed) breast. On many Rome mint examples, the wreath is poorly engraved or poorly preserved and many numismatists have mistaken the wreath for the goddess&#039;s bare breast, as if she were nursing the baby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, the details of the surface on which Isis stands are different. On the Rome example, she stands on flat ground and rests her foot on a prow or stool and the rudder leans against a box-like object (altar?) behind her; on the eastern mint version, however, she rests her left leg on the prow of a ship and there is no separate box-like object behind her, but it&#039;s the same prow, and the rudder leans against it.</p><p><br /></p><p>ROME MINT. [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]&#039;s <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/isis-horus-denarius-as-a-severan-dynastic-issue.350170/#post-3876619" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/isis-horus-denarius-as-a-severan-dynastic-issue.350170/#post-3876619">example</a> clearly shows the wreath held by Isis and calls the identity of the &quot;prow&quot; on which she rests her left foot into question:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1273125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>EASTERN MINT. My example shows Isis&#039;s wavy hair (or radiate crown); Isis doesn&#039;t hold a wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-saecvli-felicitas-denarius-laodicea-close-up-jpg.1023775/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what -- if anything -- these differences signify.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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