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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 8290208, member: 31620&quot;]Hello David,</p><p>That is a fantastic coin. Obtaining such a nice rarity through your expert knowledge is something that I personally find gratifying when I manage it myself (it doesn&#039;t happen that often). </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a soft spot for the Lugdunese style and whilst I dabbled with Lugdunese Flavians in my early collecting time have narrowed my collection away from them. I can still appreciate the appeal of the style of mint apparent in this coin and the fact that it is a desirable IVDEA CAPTA type that is even scarcer from this mint just adds to the thrill of the find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congratulations.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a coin that is winging it&#039;s way to me as we speak that is also from Lugdunum and one that is of particular interest to my current collecting focus and was also misattributed. I will wait for this to arrive before posting it as, whilst I am not superstitious, I do not want to anger the postal gods by posting it before it is in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have the following misattributed coin that is the root of some of the cause to my focus on the eastern denarii of Septimius Severus. </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus denarius</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– IMP CA L SE SEV PER AG COS II, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– FORT REDVC, Fortuna standing left, holding long scepter &amp; cornucopia</p><p>Minted in Emesa, A.D. 194</p><p>References:– RIC -. BMCRE -. RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.17g, 18.54mm, 0o</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064an_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was sold to me as a Barbarous imitation due to the partially blundered obverse legends. I felt that the style was good and had seen an obverse die match on Doug Smiths [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] pages on this coinage so was willing to take a punt especially as the coin was cheap. It sparked an interest in the entire series for me which has led to my current collection/obsession.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my sub-collections in this series relets specifically to these unusual, shortened obverse legends and I have 6 examples from this obverse die alone. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ui_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064el_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064tb_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ls_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064st_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Only two of the coins above was correctly identified by the sellers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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