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Message:: [QUOTE="Limes, post: 3994058, member: 101013"]Thank you for the kind words and appreciation. Ja dat klopt! Idealiter communiceert iedereen hier in het Nederlands, maar ik denk dat dat te veel gevraagd is ;-) Interesting observation dougsmit. I followed Sear, who only mentions Rome. But I did not check it out thorough enough. I find it difficult to compare the mints, although I think that the difference is shown especially in the flowing of the beard, the 'fuller' head and the bulby eyes. When searching in acsearch on this type and 'Rome', I get 139 hits. while Alexandria gets 6 hits. Although the 'Rome' hits do show some results that meet the criteria mentioned above, which could mean they would belong to the other mint. Harlan J Berk mentions the following: "These Alexandrian denarii of Pertinax are not in the standard catalogues, because they have only recently been distinguished from his Rome-mint pieces; see for example R. Bickford-Smith, Rivista ital. di numismatica XCVI, 1994/5, p. 54." Which could explain why Sear only mentions Rome? RIC 10a is the scarcer type, with Providentia stretching out both arms fully towards the star. An even more rare type is one I found auctioned by HD Rauch in 2006, RIC 10a with 'PROVID DEORVM' on the reverse in stead of PROVID DEOR COS II. Here is the full image of my Pertinax denarius. [ATTACH=full]1051601[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]