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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2737735, member: 31620&quot;]Amongst the eastern issues of Septimius Severus are an odd little sub-series that don&#039;t follow the full late Emesa obverse legend of &quot;IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II&quot;. They come with a variety of legend variations and are quite enigmatic in that their style doesn&#039;t really match this series but does seem closer to the &quot;IMP II&quot; series. Anyway that is a story for another day. I have a bit of an obsession with this sub series and have a few examples. My latest example is from my favourite obverse die from this series, an example of which which was my first eastern denarius of Sept. Sev. and ignited the fire.</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>References:– RIC -. BMCRE -. RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p>Black tone.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064tb_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>my other examples</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev:– FORT REDVC, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder &amp; cornucopia</p><p>References:– RIC -. BMCRE -. RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064el_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my first one. The same reverse type as my new coin but different reverse die. Sold to me as a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev:– FORT REDVC, Fortuna standing left, holding long scepter &amp; cornucopia</p><p>References:– RIC -. BMCRE -. RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064an_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Rev– LIBER AVG, Liberalitas standing left, holding abacus in right hand, cornucopiae in left</p><p>Reference:– BMCRE -. RIC - RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ls_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Rev:– MART-I V-ICTORI, Mars advancing right carrying spear and trophy.</p><p>Minted in Emesa. A.D. 194-195</p><p>Reference:– BMCRE -. RIC - RSC -.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064st_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I know of two other reverses. </p><p><br /></p><p>Doug has a MINER VI-CTRIC which is reverse die linked to a different obverse die in this series.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a MONET AVG, Moneta standing type.</p><p><br /></p><p>My search for these continues.</p><p><br /></p><p>These all seem quite scarce. I have found only one example of each apart from the Mars coin of which I know that there are 3 examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obsessive? Me? Yep!</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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