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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8333271, member: 75937&quot;]Another Severan of the same style as the coins of the &quot;Laodicea&quot; mint (now attributed by the British Museum as being minted in Antioch).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domna-cereri-frvgif-denarius-laodicea-limes-jpg.1443743/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Julia Domna, AD 193-217.</font></p><p><font size="3">Roman <i>limes falsum</i> Æ denarius, 2.26 g, 18.2 mm, 1 h.</font></p><p><font size="3">Uncertain mint but of &quot;Laodicea&quot; style, AD 196-202 (or later).</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev: CERERI FRVGIF, Ceres seated left, holding corn-ears in right hand and long vertical torch in left hand.</font></p><p><font size="3">Refs: Cohen 16; cf. RIC 636; cf. BMCRE 592.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>This particular limes denarius of Julia Domna was known to Cohen, who cataloged it as a &quot;petit bronze,&quot; no. 16, separate from the denarius, no. 14.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/capture-jpg.1443750/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Cohen apparently didn&#039;t know what to make of these limes denarii. He does the same for this limes of Plautilla (no. 11), which he calls &quot;core of a fouree denarius or petit bronze.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/plautilla-concordiae-aeternae-limes-denarius-jpg.1443756/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/capture-1-jpg.1443751/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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