I haven't been very active in CoinTalk lately due to finals work and other projects taking up a lot of my time, but I've been browsing now and then in the background, and growing my collection. One of the interesting coins which I've acquired recently is this fouree denarius of Julia Domna... It's possible that my identification is just wrong, but after viewing the common reverse types of Julia Domna, I believe it is imitating RIC 577 or one of its regional mint variants, which depicts Isis nursing the infant Horus/Harpocrates. The only thing that stands out is that Isis appears to be facing left, instead of right, which all official variants that I've seen do. Unfortunately, the reverse inscription is too far gone to make out much, although I believe one of the last letters is an 'A' (as in Felicitas). Anyone ever seen anything like this? Obverse: IULIA AVGVSTA, bust right Reverse: SAECVLI FELICITAS (?), Isis left nursing the infant Harpocrates, left foot on prow, altar with rudder behind (?) 2.63g, 18mm
Since it was so worn I hadn't thought of that, but just by counting the number of letters in the legend I can see that you are right, @dougsmit. I guess the forger didn't realize they needed to use a mirror image on the die. Odd that they got it right on the obverse, maybe a different celator.
