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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7911116, member: 19463&quot;]My great regret is that an ocean separates me from the collector I would most enjoy meeting in person.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;dots&#039; on these coins have a distinct tendency to being triangular.&nbsp; Those who do not realize that might mistake them for poorly made II&#039;s but they are triangular dots.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Julia obverse die is very common among the all-rare early &#039;Emesa&#039; coins for her.&nbsp; My completely unscientific guess is that it was her first from that mint.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that coin is most likely the finest known BUT I would really like it better if it were more clear on the right end of the reverse so it would be obviously COS II rather than COS with no numeral.&nbsp; I have both but the COSII version is poor in the same region.&nbsp; They are what they are.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1365910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My COS (plain) is not all that great of a coin but does suggest the lack of a numeral rather well unless we find a die match that adds evidence of widely separated II in that region.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1365909[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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