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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7883048, member: 19463&quot;]12.&nbsp; For no particular reason my offering for the twelfth is another Emesa denarius but not one you will find it easy to duplicate.&nbsp; Left facing heads for Septimius exist with several reverses but none are common. This one is the only of its reverse I have seen and the reverse is unusual even with a right facing portrait. Fortuna Reduci reverses come in several variations - seated, standing, as Hilaritas with long palm and, as here, as Pax sacrificing over an altar. Most coins will abbreviate the reverse legend but this one spells out completely FORTVNA REDVCI.&nbsp; That makes it a less common guise of Fortuna with a less common legend but the truth is that <u>any</u> left facing Septimius is a coin worthy of my collection. This coin may (?) be an obverse die link to BMC 328 and was similar to a Bickford-Smith coin (his 152) I assume is now in the British Museum.&nbsp; I got it in 1991 and am happy to celebrate our thirtieth anniversary. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1359534[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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