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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7873741, member: 110350"]Thanks for posting the uncias, [USER=103869]@Scipio[/USER] and [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER]. When I said that my coin was only the second Republican denarius to show a radiate Sol on the obverse (with or without a crescent moon and stars on the reverse), I knew about the earlier uncia -- it's in Crawford's index under Sol -- but had never seen a photo before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have an example of the Septimius Severus minted in Emesa, mentioned above? Here's an example I see on the Internet (not mine). Does anyone think it's a contemporary or modern forgery, as opposed to simply reflecting an engraver's error? The obverse legend is supposed to read IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, but if you look carefully you'll see that it reads PERT VG rather than PERT AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1356882[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7873741, member: 110350"]Thanks for posting the uncias, [USER=103869]@Scipio[/USER] and [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER]. When I said that my coin was only the second Republican denarius to show a radiate Sol on the obverse (with or without a crescent moon and stars on the reverse), I knew about the earlier uncia -- it's in Crawford's index under Sol -- but had never seen a photo before. Does anyone have an example of the Septimius Severus minted in Emesa, mentioned above? Here's an example I see on the Internet (not mine). Does anyone think it's a contemporary or modern forgery, as opposed to simply reflecting an engraver's error? The obverse legend is supposed to read IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, but if you look carefully you'll see that it reads PERT VG rather than PERT AVG. [ATTACH=full]1356882[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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