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Message:: [QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7513498, member: 89514"]Alexandria's style is so characteristic that it is not presumptuous to assign the Severan denarii of that same style to 'Alexandria'. The mints of the Syrian Severan denarii, however, are little more than guesswork, so it is best to refer to them not with city names, but with neutral descriptive  names, for example: Not 'Emesa', but 'the COS II series', including the earliest coins of that series with the Roman obv. legend of 193 and with obv. legends ending II COS, II CO, II C, or COS I. Not 'Laodicea', but 'the IMP II series', followed by 'the IMP VIII series (old style)', and 'the Syrian new style series', including Septimius from IMP VIII on, Domna, Caracalla, Plautilla, and Geta. Julia Domna old style denarii should use the same three names as for Septimius, that is 'Domna, COS II series', 'Domna, IMP II series', and 'Domna, IMP VIII series, old style'. These three series of Domna can only be divided by style and by observed rev. die links to COS II, IMP II, or IMP VIII old style denarii of Septimius. Until these three groups have been sorted out and published, they might best be referred to collectively as 'Domna old style, including COS II, IMP II, and IMP VIII coins'.[/QUOTE]