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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2643537, member: 31620&quot;]The following coin was sold to me as a Barbarous Imitative of an Emesa - COS II issue of Septimius Severus. This was one of the first eastern Septimius Severus coins I bought and with standard shipping from the USA to Europe costing more than the coin itself I considered it worth a punt and would stimulate me to do some research and reading around the topic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse legend reads &quot;IMP CA L SE SEV PER AG COS II&quot; which is part of a range of certainly official coins with a variety of obverse spelling errors that are quite perplexing and a subject I am attempting to do some research on.</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>It was though this coin that I first encountered Curtis Clay and got to hear about Doug Smith who has a coin from the same obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now have 4 coins from this obverse die and a sub collection of dozens of these oddities.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Both the seller and I had read the coin but neither of us understood it. It became the stimulus of a whole new collection for me. Doug probably regrets the day I stumbled across this one as I have become ravenous in my collecting of these eastern issues ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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