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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 7925524, member: 31620&quot;]From the limited gathering of information I have been able to perform over the years with lots of input from Curtis Clay who probably has the most intact view of the complete chronology of these coins I have the following to share.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adiabene was an ancient kingdom in Northern Mesopotamia circa 164 B.C to circa 379 A.D. and were vassals/client kingdom to the Parthian empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Adiabenici supported Pescennius Niger and coins citing victory over them are citing a specific historical event, which is unusual in these eastern issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>The titles of ARAB and ADIAB were voted him by the Senate in Rome soon after his victory over them early in A.D. 195. Coins were briefly struck with the additional title of PARTHICVS but Severus didn&#039;t want to offend the Parthians. The Parthicus title was quickly dropped to become ARAB ADIAB.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is possible/likely that the eastern mints were closed during the time that Severus had returned west to deal with Clodius Albinus and were re-opened after his victory over Albinus. The standard texts date this event to 19th Feb. A.D. 197 but Curtis has corrected this chronology to 19th Feb. A.D. 196. This would align with the production of coinage in the east with IMP VIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what does this all mean in terms of the coinage?</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] and [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] both illustrate coins with the legend PART ARAB PART ADIAB which were produced at Rome as a direct celebration of the titles being voted to Severus in A.D. 195. These titles occur in the IMP IIII and IMP V issues as do the ARAB ADIAB coins so I suppose the coins must have been produced at the very end of the IMP IIII issue and into IMP V in general. The PART titles are dropped before the coins reach the IMP VI and IMP VII issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>The BM has some spectacular coins that illustrate part of this and I cannot resist sharing them here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aureus - IMP IIII - PART ARAB PART ADIAB COS II P P</p><p>(Image courtesy of the British Museum)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1369434[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sestertius - IMP V</p><p>(Image courtesy of the British Museum)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1369435[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now on to more humble coins....</p><p>By IMP VII the PART has been removed</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ac_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>and on into IMP VIII</p><p>(Image courtesy of the British Museum)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1369436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now we look east.... and next we have an issue to resolve in the standard references. This is quite a scarce type and at the time of their writing both RIC (RIC 466) and BMCRE (Page 110) were solely citing Cohen 52 for the existence of this type. Cohen cites an example in Paris describes the coin as IMP VII. RIC and BMCRE both bring forward the errored reading of the coin as reading IMP VII, rather than it being a&nbsp; holding a coin with IMP VII-I (confirmed by Curtis Clay who has a plaster cast of the Paris example). Cohen compounds this with another error that is brought forward. He correctly describes the Rome mint Victory coins as having Victory holding a Trophy as illustrated above (Cohen 47-51) but for this coin mistakenly stated that this type is of the same type. Victory actually holds a palm on the Paris example (again confirmed by Curtis). The British Museum now has an example of this type ex. Curtis Clay collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been fortunate enough to track down several examples of the type with some subtle but (to me at least) interesting variations</p><p><br /></p><p>This first one would be what I would consider to be a vanilla version of the type as it shows everything that needs to be described without any anomalies</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIII, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– ARAB ADIABENIC, Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm</p><p>Minted in Laodicea-ad-Mare. A.D. 196-197</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064ou_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VI-II, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– ARAB ADIABENIC, Victory advancing left holding wreath and ... (the palm is missing on this coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes:- a double die match to the Curtis Clay example mentioned above confirming the IMP VI-II legend break and the missing palm. ex Athena List, Munich, 1981, now in British Museum (also illustrated below for direct comparison).</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132ft_img~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1369439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VII-I, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– ARAB ADIABENIC, Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm (R of ARAB corrected over B)</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064fi_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:– L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP VIII, Laureate head right</p><p>Rev:– ARAB DIABENIC (sic), Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064tk_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>to be continued.....below (you are limited on the number of images per post)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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