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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7879561, member: 19463&quot;]10. From the mint formerly known as &#039;Emesa&#039; comes an ordinary COS II dated obverse paired with a reverse showing crossed cornucopia and one barley stalk or, as they are cataloged in the UK English, an ear of corn.&nbsp; The legend on these is some abbreviation of FELICITAS TEMPORVM.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here we read FEIICIT TIMLOR.. with the E in a style not usual in either Greek or Latin.&nbsp; The L lacks its lower element and is tall like the I between C and T while its neighboring I and the one between T and M are short.&nbsp; I do not have an explanation for the L where we expect a P.&nbsp; The reverse die is fresh and boldly struck so this is not an artifact of poor condition.&nbsp; Note there are arced remnants of the guide lines for letters at the bottom.&nbsp; This is one of the dies adding dots at the end which I maintain have some coded meaning (not just space fillers) even though I do not claim to know what that meaning is.&nbsp; This coin demonstrates what might be a good idea to remember:&nbsp; &quot;All Eastern Severans are strange; some are just stranger than others.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record: It has long been obvious that the traditional BMC/RIC mint attributions and assignments need reevaluation. My fanciful nature prefers the concept of mints that travelled with the Emperor while he was in the area dealing with Pescennius Niger and those that were slow to abandon his cause even after he was dead.&nbsp; What we don&#039;t know about this subject would fill a very large book.&nbsp; There are theories filling in for facts but proving any of them is quite another matter.&nbsp; Last I saw, the British Museum was using &quot;Cappadocia&quot;.&nbsp; I prefer to keep using &quot;Emesa&quot; with the quotation marks being required to indicate we still don&#039;t know what we never knew. Theories are fine.&nbsp; The problem comes when we start thinking we have answers before we understand the questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British Museum has a coin (ex. Bickford-Smith) that combines this reverse design with the legend they catalog as BONI EVENTVS (as shown by maridvnvm above) but which I read as BONI EV<b>I</b>NTVS.</p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1997-1203-83" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1997-1203-83" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1997-1203-83</a></p><p>This attracts my attention more than appropriate for a one letter spelling error (after all, this is an Eastern Severan) because it matches the first coin of Pescennius Niger I was able to obtain (1999).&nbsp; Please forgive my insertion of a non-SS coin in this thread.&nbsp; I&#039;ll possibly do it again before October. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358578[/ATTACH] </p><p>(I consider the lack of the last letter in EVINTVS or EVINTVC a matter of condition but I would like to see a die match that settled that question).&nbsp; Who was it that said: &quot;All Eastern Severans are strange; some are just stranger than others.&quot;&nbsp; That is why I collect them.&nbsp; While Pescennius and Septimius would not appreciate being lumped together for the purpose, I do believe it best to study them each being aware of the other to some degree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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