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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7912393, member: 19463&quot;]25. September 25 is my wife&#039;s birthday and we are going out for a little trip early tomorrow so I&#039;ll post my 25th coin just a bit early.&nbsp; The coins here were featured as guests in my Bride page.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just cheat and cut/paste from my own page.</p><p>&quot;</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/b01569sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/b01843sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Guests</b></font></p><p>Julia Domna - silver denarius - 194 AD</p><p>Syrian mint &#039;Emesa&#039;?</p><p>IVLIA DO-MNA AVG</p><p>FELICIT TEMPOR</p><p>Basket of fruit</p><p>Septimius Severus - silver denarius - 194 AD</p><p>Syrian mint &#039;Emesa&#039;?</p><p>IMP CAE L SEP SE-V PERT AVG COS-II</p><p>FELICIT TEMPOR</p><p>Basket of fruit</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Guests&quot; at the wedding include a married couple: the &quot;Baskets&quot;. This scarce &#039;Emesa&#039; type shows a basket of fruit and grains surrounded with FELICITAS TEMPORVM (sometimes shortened as here). Both coins were struck by the same reverse die. It is very unusual to find Roman coins of different rulers that are <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" rel="nofollow">dielinked</a>. Eastern denarii of Julia Domna include both the expected &quot;female&quot; types (Venus, etc.) and reverses shared with Septimius. At Alexandria, different dies were cut for each ruler even when the design was the same but, at &#039;Emesa&#039;, it is not unusual to find examples of shared dies. This would make it likely that coins were struck for Septimius using the seated (&quot;Bride&quot;) type and for Julia with the walking (&quot;Groom&quot;) Victory. Whether any have survived and will come to light from new hoard material remains to be seen. The number of varieties known for the Eastern mints of Septimius has increased greatly in the last fifty years. Many coins struck in the East are included in hoards found in the Middle East and Eastern European lands that have been providing collectors with so many coins in recent years. The chance of still more new finds is excellent.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin of the day is the Septimius with II beyond the point of the bust.&nbsp; Julia is his +1.&nbsp; Below is a similar coin with legend FELICITAS TEMPOR. rather than the FELICIT TEMPOR filling out the space available.&nbsp; It also has the ordinary placement of COSII on the obverse. RIC only lists the FELICITAS TEMPOR (long version) paired with a left bust and rated R2.&nbsp; I suppose this makes this the better of the two but the die link to Domna is what earned the listed variety its place as day 25 coin of the day.&nbsp; Obviously I would really like the left facing version. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1366328[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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