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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7502733, member: 85693&quot;]Over the past couple of years I have followed the interesting and informative &quot;other mints&quot; posts for the Severans.&nbsp; I am happy to report I just got my first Emesa/Eastern Mint Septimius Severus - it came in an undescribed lot.&nbsp; Hope I got it right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Did you see the hole?&nbsp; Unfortunately it is holed - about 15 of the silver coins in the lot had plugged holes in them - most of them with 4, as if for a bracelet mount.&nbsp; Price came out to $1.24 each, so I am not complaining.&nbsp; This one only has only one hole; on the reverse it comes out just above the wreath.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My theory is that rather than being deliberately plugged, the jewelry links were broken off.&nbsp; Mostly the plugs are flush, but a few of them stick up a bit; and there is no sign of solder-blob.&nbsp; I am guessing this was done a long time ago as the plugged parts are deeply toned along with the rest of the coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296471[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Septimius Severus&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(194-195 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Emesa/Uncertain Eastern Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAE L SEP [SEV PERT] AVG COS II, laureate head right / VICT[O]R AVG, Victory walking left, holding wreath and palm.</p><p>RIC 425; RSC 697.</p><p>(2.67 grams / 15 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>In regards to the Emesa Liberalitas types, I have gruesome example of Julia Domna that might fit in, again, it I got the attribution correct.&nbsp; It is so crude it might be a contemporary imitation:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julia Domna&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Denarius</b></p><p><b>(c. 193-196 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Emesa/Uncertain Eastern Mint</b></p><p>IVLIA DO[MNA AV]G, draped bust right / LIBER[A]L AVG, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding tessera and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC 627; BMCRE 418-419; Cohen/RSC 103; RCV 6591.</p><p>(3.00 grams / 18 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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