Anepigraph

AEL ERI - NA AVG

Bust of Aelia Verina to the right, draped, wearing a diadem of pearls, a necklace of pearls and long earrings. Above, the hand of God crowning her.

Latin cross inside a crown.

Photo of a coin sold the 12/01/2004 by Classical Numismatic Group, Triton VII, lot 1065, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=157742, link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.

To be confirmed, in fact the photo does not allow us to be sure that  is not a distorted Y. One coin illustrated in the RIC X plate 22, n°614 clearly show the letter . This is the copy preserved at the British Museum, museum number G3,RIG.492, offered byr Georges IV in 1825. Formerly: collection of Goerges III King of united Kingdom. Link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_G3-RIG-492.

For the classification of the legends and the form of the letters, click here: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/emperors/romaines-imperiales/aelia-verina. And look comments of AYC #1.

As I said in AYC # 1, the RIC listed legends with variants V, Y etc ... without knowing which copies were used for the analysis of letters. Legends noted  were they actually with V letters? Still, the officina letter has a Y shape, let's be clear: that is to say a V with a wide base. As on this copy where we can clearly see that the officina letter A has the same shape as the Y, but upside down. Anyway, the letters A on all types have the same shape as the Y's (which I describe as V with a wide base).