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Pillar of the Community
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I don't really care about mints, just after the helmeted w/spear bust. I'll check out this "Vcoins" and see if they have what I'm looking for.
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Pillar of the Community
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www.vcoins.com is a combined virtual coin store with many worldwide dealers ranging from large to small. It has a search facility across all the stores and if you enter "Probus helmet" with "All keywords" ticked then you should be presented with about 60 or so coins matching these criteria. Regards, Martin
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, that's an amazing site, thanks for the link.
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Pillar of the Community
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After the short lived dynasty of Carus and his family came the Diocletian who quickly formed the first Tetrarchy. The Antoninianus is still the main currency and remains the silvered bronze coin identified by the radiate crown. The range of busts used at this time is not as great as it was during the reign of Probus though there is still quite a decent variety. Heading this Tetrarchy as Augusti are Diocletian and Maximianus Herculius.   With Galerius and Constantius Chlorus as their appointed Caesars.   In A.D. 294 Diocletian undertook a major reform of the coinage and with this we see the last use of the Antoninianus. The following coin is from the last issue of these coins produced in Lugdunum during A.D. 294.  The coinage reform introduced the Follis and the radiate crown continues in limited used on what we know as a radiate fraction and occasionally on some later coins from the dynasty of Constantine. I have skipped over many reigns during this brief history of the Antoninianus and I am sure that there and many examples that could be posted to fill in some of these gaps. I know that I could fill in many of them. Regards, Martin |
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United Kingdom
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I'll keep this topic alive with some of my better purchases. Probus Antoninianus Obv:- IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, Radiate bust left wearing imperial mantle, holding Victory on globe in right hand Rev:- VIRTVS AVG, Soldier standing left, holding Victory and spear, left hand on shield. Minted in Lugdunum (//IIII) Emission 5 Officina 4. End A.D. 277 to start A.D. 278 (Bastien) Reference(s) - Cohen 821. Bastien 258 (7 examples cited). RIC 111 var (Not listed with this bust type in RIC). This is a scarcer bust type as are most of the coins from the 5th emission. I only have one other example of this bust type in my collection and it isn't as nice as this one.  Regards, Martin |
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Love your Probvs Martin  the full silvered Antoninanus's look great and are hard to find in that condition so good on ya mate also I was going to show mine but these put mine to shame  regards Harry  |
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Thanks for the crash course in ancients...you are a great contributor to the FORUM!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I missed out so many emperors on my run through the life of the Antoninianus. I thought it might be worth going back through some of the ones I missed out... Ants of Gordian III abound and they are very affordable and provide a great starting point to Roman coin collecting. There is production from Roma and Antioch. Gordian also produced the last of the denarii. There is a huge variety of reverse types and can provide sufficient collecting interest to keep a collector going for quite a while. Obv:- IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:- VIRTVTI AVGVSTI, Hercules standing front, head right, holding club on rock and lion skin Minted in Rome Reference:- RIC 95, RSC 404 Weight 4.37 gms. Dimensions 21.77mm  Obv:- IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right seen from the rear Rev:- FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna seated left holding rudder and cornucopiae Minted in Antioch. A.D. 242 - 244 Reference:- RIC 210, RSC 98a Weight 3.88 gms. Dimensions 21.51mm With the distinctive style being a great differentiator between the output of the two mints.  Regards, Martin |
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And the ladies are well represented too. They start with Julia Domna when they are much scarcer that the denarii through to times when they are the norm. Here we have an Otacilia Severa Antoninianus Obv:- M OTACIL SEVERA AVG, Diademed draped bust right on crescent Rev:- SPES FELICITAS ORBIS, CONCORDIA AVG, Concordia seated facing left, holding a patera and a cornucopiae Minted in Rome. Reference:- RIC 126. RSC 17 Note that the Radiate crown (Radiate as in Sol i.e. the Sun) is replaced with the bust sitting on a Crescent (Moon). Which acts a a denomination mark for the Ants of the ladies.  Regards, Martin |
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You didn't have to be Emperor or Empress either. The coins were also minted in the names of their heirs. Phillip II Antoninianus Obv:- M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:- PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip II standing left, holding globe and inverted spear Minted in Rome. Reference:- RIC 218d. RSC 88  We can also see when the Caesar became Augustus and this helps us with the chronology of the coins. Phillip II Antoninianus Obv:- IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:- AETERNIT IMPER, Sol advancing left, raising right hand and holding whip Minted in Rome. Reference:- RIC 226. RSC 6.  Regards, Martin |
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Another coin to try and keep the thread going. On the face of it, it is not a special coin but it is special to me. Obv:- IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, Radiate draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:- FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding standard in each hand Minted in Lugdunum (//III) Emission 6, Officina 3. A.D. 278 - 279 (Bastien) References:- Cohen 257. Bastien 276 (7 examples cited). RIC 78 var Bust type C (Not listed with this bust type in RIC)  The coins with the longer "P F AVG" legend from this issue seem scarcer that their equivalents with the shorter legends. This coin is in quite good condition, probably gVF or maybe even aEF for wear (though I find grading hard to do with ancients). The coin is nearly completely silvered though the silvering has been lost on the highest points exposing the bronze beneath, quite possibly as a result of the cleaning process. It is struck on a good sized but slightly oval flan resulting in some legend loss. There is some flatness on the head of Fides, not through wear but lost during the strike due to lack of metal. Regards, Martin |
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Here's some of mine:  Coin details: Coin: Valerian I Billon Antoninianus - Victory Obverse: Radiate bust right, draped IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG Reverse: Victory standing left holding wreath and palm VICTORIA AVGG Catalog: RIC V 124 - Struck AD 254 - Rome mint  Coin details: Coin: Claudius II Gothicus AE Antoninianus - Victory Obverse: Radiate draped bust right IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG Reverse: Victory running right holding wreath and palm VICTORIA AVG - Exergue: S - Mediolanum (Milan) mint Catalog: RIC 171  Coin details: Aurelian Antoninianus - Sol Captive Obverse: Radiate and cuirassed bust right IMP AVRELIANVS AVG Reverse: Sol standing left, right hand raised, holding globe, captive at foot ORIENS AVG - Exergue: S (Serdica mint) Catalog: RIC Serdica 276  https://www.brianrxm.comThe Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It is nice to see some other Ants. I have recently added the following coin to my collection:- Tacitus Antoninianus Obv:- IMP C M CLA TACITVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:- PAX AVG, Pax advancing left holding branch and transverse sceptre Minted in Siscia (Q in left field) References:- RIC -. La Venera -. Estiot p. 368, specimens in Vienna and Sirmium Hoard. There are no examples of this coin in LaVenera though there is an equivalent coin with the Q in exe, LV 1799 (2 examples cited, 2234-2235). The usual type is Pax standing.  Come on there mus be more people with some Ants in their collections out there! Regards, Martin |
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A little correction on the person of Magnia Urbica:
Magnia Urbica (wife of Carus, mother of Carinus and Numerian)
In fact she was the wife of Carinus and probably mother of
Nigrinian.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for the lesson, very informative
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