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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2052703, member: 31620&quot;]I have been away over Christmas so have returned to some coins to start off 2015.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first of my denarii of Septimius Severus for 2015. I hear a massive yawn from the members. I hope to add many more during the year.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus denarius </b></p><p>Obv:– L SEPT SEV P-ERET AVG IMP I-I, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– FORT R-DEVC (sic), Fortuna seated left holding rudder and cornucopiae</p><p>Minted in Laodicea-ad-Mare. A.D. 194</p><p>Reference:– BMCRE (p. 108), RIC 451 and RSC 168 all describe a coin with this reverse description citing Cohen 168 which is described as having a PERT obverse legend. I have never seen this type with PERT. RIC does have a footnote for a coin with PERET matching my coin in the RD hoard on p. 105. I do have another example of this reverse with the PERTE obverse legend. </p><p><br /></p><p>This obverse die has the slightly more unusual end to the obverse legend of IMP I - I and it looks as though there was a problem with either the die, the flan or something suring the striking process that caused an area of the portrait not to be struck up (from the eye and up through the hair). Examination under magnification would imply that this was during the strike process and not a subsequent lamination issue.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064qq_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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