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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3876753, member: 75937&quot;]Thank you so much, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] , for posting the relevant portions of Bertolazzi&#039;s recent examination of this issue and for posting your coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my specimens of the Domna SAECVLI FELICITAS issue, it isn&#039;t clear what Isis is doing with her right hand. She appears to have some circular object in her hand on my Rome mint example (left), but holds no such object on the eastern mint version (right):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024184[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have long taken the object on my coin to be the goddess&#039;s breast, being offered to the infant. On your example, though, she appears to hold a wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024189[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Daniel North, in his 1988 article I cited above, noted the presence of a &quot;victory wreath&quot; on the coin and postulated that it perhaps alluded to Severus&#039;s victories in the civil wars or his defeat of the Parthians (p. 3). I dismissed this because none of my references (RIC, the British Museum collection online, or Sear) mentioned the existence of a wreath in their descriptions of the coin&#039;s reverse, and numerous examples I&#039;ve seen online do not clearly depict a wreath. BUT YOURS DOES.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a very interesting reverse on that coin you have there, not only for the legend variant, but because of the exceptionally well-rendered wreath. It makes me reassess my &quot;that&#039;s a breast&quot; interpretation, because the engraver of my coin may have intended to depict a wreath and the ravages of time have rendered it unclear. </p><p><br /></p><p>That adds another layer of semiotics to unpack here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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