Sept. Severus Emesa Mint AR Denarius Fortvna Redvci

That is just a typo, in RIC it has Fortuna (Pax) standing and if you look at the example on OCRE, it is standing also-- coin posted below.

Note that 385a is holding a branch though; not rudder like your coin.

Your coin is RIC IV Emesa 378

https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....378?lang=en

I hope that you don't mind but I will make this a quite full answer rather than the very short answer that I can give.

For those who don't want to read on then here is the short form version. I would attribute this as either RIC 377 var. or probably more correctly unlisted near RIC 377. The rationale for this is that the type takes precedence over legend in placing the coins in RIC.

It is a variation that I do not have in my own collection but will give you some context within which to place it.

The longest form of the legend in this series is FORTVNAE REDVCI with an exception in the II COS reverse sub-series where there is a "FORTVNAE REDVCI II COS" legend. It is my speculation that the legends shorten over time with the dominant form being FORTVN REDVC but being FORT REDVC at the shortest form. The legend is combined with a number of reverse deities in standing and seated forms.

Fortuna
Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae
Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae
Pax
Fortuna (pax?), with modius on head, seated left holding branch and cornucopia
Hilaritas
Fortuna (Hilaritas) standing left holding long palm and cornucopia
Fortuna (Hilaritas) seated left holding long palm and cornucopia
Pietas
Fortuna (Pietas) standing left holding patera and cornucopia, sacrificing over altar
?
Fortuna standing left, holding long sceptre & cornucopia
Exceptionally Moneta / Aequitas
Moneta/Aequitas standing left, holding scales in right hand, cornucopiae in left

RIC only notes one FORT... type in the earliest AVG issue, which is FORT REDVG, Hilaritas and cites Cohen 169. I have not been able to confirm this coin, the REDVG should certainly be REDVC. This short legend would be unusual in ths early issue.

I have a couple of examples from this AVG issue...

FORTVNAE REDVC, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopiae

FORTVNE (sic) RDVCI (sic), Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae


The COS I issue is always problematic. There are regular mis-readings of COS I-I coins that have occured making me doubt so many of the coins in RIC. I can confirm that RIC Page 139 (5) does exist with the following coin being a double die match to the example in the BM, which is the coin cited in RIC

FORTVNAE REDVCI, Fortuna (Pietas) standing left holding patera and cornucopia, sacrificing over altar


Amongst these two issues we get the odd obverse legend varieties, which certainly pre-date the much larger COS II issue.

II C - FORTVNAE REDVCI, Fortuna (Pax?) seated left holding branch and cornucopia

II CO - FORTVNAE REDVCI, Fortuna (pax?), with modius on head, seated left holding branch and cornucopia

II COS - FORTVNAE REDVCI II COS, Fortuna standing left holding rudder and cornucopia
ONLY 3 COINS KNOWN FROM THIS OBVERSE DIE

II C - FORTVAE(sic) REDVCI, Moneta/Aequitas standing left, holding scales in right hand, cornucopiae in left

. CO - FOTVNA-E (sic) R-EDVCI, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left

II C - FORTVNAE REDVCI, Fortuna (Pax?) seated left holding branch and cornucopia


The COS II has so many variants of type and legend that you would certainly give up looking before I posted most let alone all of mine (I have several dozen variations).

Here is a FORTVNA REDVCI, Pax type like the one you mention.



and the longer FORTVNAE REDVCI


Hilaritas standing and seated (very scarce)

FORTV-NA REDVCI

FORTVN R-EDVC


I would pleace you coin near this type, though likely chronologically slightly earlier


Your coin is an obverse die match with the following coins, the first pair being a double die match with each other


Another obverse die match


I think I have some other obverse die matches and have seen others..

In summary. A nice find and one I will make a note of for my records.

I suspect that RIC 378 is AVG II C....

The OCRE RIC 378 is a mis-attributed AVG . CO. Same obverse die as the following coin.