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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6453835, member: 19463&quot;]For those who may have missed the point:&nbsp; The Syrian mints rarely spelled out MONETA preferring MONET.&nbsp; They used several spacings at the end of the obverse legend with the one here showing both strokes of II beyond the point of the bust rather closer to the start of the legend than to the IMP.&nbsp; I have never specialized in &quot;Laodicea&quot; or the IMP coins to the degree Martin has and all I have is the standard MONET version.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257245[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My concentration favors Alexandria which did not use a dating device on the obverse but that did not stop them from pushing the last two letters of AVG to the other side of the bust point.&nbsp; This mint regularly spelled out MONETA. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257248[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This die took the opposite track and squeezed the VG in on the right side but separated the A of MONET---A on the reverse (weak just above the cornucopia).&nbsp; If you find this boring, you are not a candidate for obsession of the Eastern Severan sort.&nbsp; That is good since there are hardly enough of these coins to satisfy the current number of people with the affliction.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1257249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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