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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3928887, member: 19463&quot;]I can accept this coin as normal for a mint not known for being too normal.&nbsp; Fourree is a very specific term for a plated coin with a base metal core and precious skin.&nbsp; It does not mean just any variation of strange.&nbsp; What you see as an extra letter after the M is the balance scales held by Moneta.&nbsp; This one shows it more clearly but is a bit less common with IVLA on the obverse and two dots on the reverse.&nbsp; There are hundreds of flyspeck level variations from &#039;Emesa&#039; which Martin and I occasionally give in to boring those of you who don&#039;t obsess on Severans.&nbsp; He prefers what was once termed &quot;Laodicea&quot; while I find it the least appealing of the Eastern mints but now fear that the mint ID picture is much more complicated than we thought.&nbsp; Those scholars who think they can pontificate and call everything &#039;Antioch&#039; just don&#039;t understand the question.&nbsp; I prefer to explain away things by fantasizing a mobile mint travelling with the emperor rather than a fixed unit in some city but my fantasies are nothing more than that.&nbsp; Those who need neatly packaged answers should collect something else.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1035559[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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