Novicius: On my example, check out the dot at the end of the star point just between where the point ends and the crescent starts. There are other stray pellets as well. But any letters are really hard to pull out. I have seen a lot of Septimius Severus and a few others with crescents and stars from that city, so I am probably biased. But seeing a lot of them might mean the coin is common enough to be a provincial like this.