I've added another interesting coin - this time an
Emesa mint with a mis-spelled
reverse. While a
scarce issue (according to
RIC), this REDVG mis-spelling was common enough to get it's own
RIC variant number -
RIC IVa 383a.
The difference is that 383 is spelled correctly as
FORTVN REDVC, 383a is FORTVN REDVG, and 383b is FORTVI REDVC
So obviously on this issue, like many
Emesa issues, spelling mistakes on the
reverse were really common. I've heard it hypothesized that the celators were either Greek unfamiliar with Latin, or illiterate workers copying a correctly spelled master coin.
All three
RIC 383 variants have the same
rarity rating, and
Cohen considered these to all be C175, regardless of spelling differences. Across all variants there were only 3 examples in RD according to
Mouchmov and the entire issue is classed "scrace" by
Mattingly.
Hope you all like it
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