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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2410974, member: 31620&quot;]A new coin added to one of sepcialities.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus denarius</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv:- L SEPT SEV PE-RET AVG IMP I - I, laureate head right</p><p>Rev:- FORTVN R-EDVCV (sic), Fortuna (Hilaritas), standing front, head left, holding long palm and cornucopiae.</p><p>Minted in Laodicea-ad-Mare. A.D. 194</p><p>Reference:– BMC -. RIC -. RSC -. 0 examples in RD. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_064si_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I had believed it to be the only known example and then in discussion with Curtis Clay on the coin he identified that he had an example from the same die pair. So now it is only one of two known. </p><p><br /></p><p>All these ancients were made in volumes. There may be large numbers of them out there somewhere waiting to be found. </p><p><br /></p><p>This has happened many times to rare variations. A new hoard turns up and a rare coin becomes common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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