I used to actively buy lmost anything I could get hold of from the large eastern COS II series of Septimius Severus. Over the years I have tried to become more selective. The Fortune series provides a whole host of variations with different legend varieties and deity variations which could form a collecting focus in their own right. I have recently added the following coin, which would simply be attributed as RIC 386 and is the fourth different RIC 386 that I have added to my collection. Septimius Severus denarius Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS I-I, Laureate head right Rev:– FORTVN R-EDVC, Fortuna (Pax?) seated left holding branch and cornucopia Minted in Emesa. A.D. 194 - 195 Reference– RIC 386 2.96 g. 16.90 mm. 0 degrees Now I will share a coin that I bought over 15 years ago which is a RIC 379. One of three RIC 379s in my collection. Septimius Severus denarius Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS I-I, Laureate head right Rev:– FORTV-N R-EDVC, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae Minted in Emesa, A.D. 194 - 195 References:– RIC 379 (Scarce), RSC 173a 2.89 g. 16.88 mm. 180 degrees So why am I sharing them if they are just examples of many of their type in my collection. As you can see they are obverse die links. This die has what I think is a peculiar attribute that makes them more interesting (at least to me) than their contemporaries in my collection. Having a legend split at the end of the obverse legend is not in itself unusual from this series. These coin have an extreme version of this legend split where the second I sits with the I of IMP at the start of the obverse legend. Martin
...kool! you chose this rabbit hole to go down. ..i've a couple of him, along with the rest of the family, (NOTE: the bottom Julia Domna is now the property of Erin)
