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Author Topic: Uncertain Mint - Septimius Severus Rome or Emesa  (Read 649 times)

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Daniel-Alexandru B

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Uncertain Mint - Septimius Severus Rome or Emesa
« on: November 12, 2021, 01:06:27 pm »
Hello. I am not 100% sure where the coin was minted. I think that in Emesa 194-195 AD. Second I am can't dechipher the obverse. I think it says:
Obverse: IMP CA L SE SEV PER AVG COS II
Reverse: MONET AVG

Thank you for your help!
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Offline clueless

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Re: Uncertain Mint - Septimius Severus Rome or Emesa
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2021, 06:15:37 am »
It is an Emesan issue and you do read the legend correctly. There are a lot of variety among these issues.

Cheers,

Clueless
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Daniel-Alexandru B

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Re: Uncertain Mint - Septimius Severus Rome or Emesa
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2021, 06:58:54 am »
Thank you!
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Re: Uncertain Mint - Septimius Severus Rome or Emesa
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2021, 02:05:54 pm »
There are several COS II obverse dies that have odd, shortened legends and this is one of them. They are a sub-series that I actively collect. I have 9 different obverse dies with these shortened legends.

Here is a double die match to your example:-



The same obverse die is also known with:-

BONA SPES


and LIBER AVG

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