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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2084675, member: 19463&quot;]When you specialize in a series like this, some dies become old friends.&nbsp; The huge die fault on the obverse of the first coin makes it an obvious one but that die has an &#039;apostrophe&#039; before the S of SEP so you can ID it easily even if the coin is off center and loses the cud.&nbsp; Eastern Severans were not made from all that many dies at least until the &#039;ordinary&#039; COS II coins.&nbsp; While we certainly enjoy new reverses, a collection of these coins will also want a set of the obverse options.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have the reverse.&nbsp; Mars is one of the less common ones on the series (along with Minerva, Jupiter and Roma) and there are several variations.&nbsp; All together I only have five Mars varieties from Emesa.&nbsp; I wonder how many there are.&nbsp; I am sure Martin will be the one to expand our knowledge of them.&nbsp; There is no single reference on these better than his online posts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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