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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 7312643, member: 31620&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus denarius</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS I-I, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– FORTVN R-EDVC, Fortuna (Pax?) seated left holding branch and cornucopia</p><p>Minted in Emesa. A.D. 194 - 195</p><p>Reference– RIC 386</p><p><br /></p><p>2.96 g. 16.90 mm. 0 degrees </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1278265[/ATTACH] </p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus denarius</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS I-I, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– FORTV-N R-EDVC, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae</p><p>Minted in Emesa, A.D. 194 - 195</p><p>References:– RIC 379 (Scarce), RSC 173a</p><p><br /></p><p>2.89 g. 16.88 mm. 180 degrees</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1278266[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So why am I sharing them if they are just examples of many of their type in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see they are obverse die links. </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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