Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V2.0)

I have a tray of coins from the Mildenhall of 1833. There were 1,286 coins from the 3rd century. One was a denarius of Caracalla and the rest were antoniniani from Valerian to Aurelian. Most of the coins are in fairly rough condition, because when they were discovered they were a "badly rusted mass of coins"





Postumus
A.D. 260- 261
Antoninianus 21mm 2.9g
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
HERC DEVSONIENSI; Hercules standing right, with right hand leaning on club, and holding bow in left hand and lion's skin over left arm.
RIC Vii Cologne 64







Postumus
A.D. 262
Antoninianus 20x22mm 3.2g
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
IOVI PROPVGNAT; Jupiter, head turned right, hurling thunderbolt.
RIC Vii Cologne 70







Postumus
A.D. 260-261
Antoninianus 20x22mm 3.6g
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
VICTORIA AVG; Victory running left, wreath in right hand and palm against left shoulder, bound captive to her feet.
RIC Vii Cologne 89



here is my Mildenhall tray

This one is in the name of Postumus but is actually minted by Aureolus, a rebel general in Milan who possibly saw this as a way to gain Postumus's support in fighting emperor Gallienus. That plan failed and Aureolus was killed later in 268.

268 CE, antoninianus, Aureolus, RIC V Postumus 381.
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG / PAX EQVITVM, Mediolanum (Milan).



Last coin from me for a while. Back in the 190s!

Postumus. ca. 260
AR Antoninianus. 22.0mm, 3.6g
Lugdunum (Lyon)
RIC V.2 Lyon 54

Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG
Draped and radiate bust right

Rev: P M TR P COS II P P
Emperor standing left holding sceptre in left hand and globe in right hand

Postumus Antoninianus with Pax 259-269 AD
obv: IMP C POSTUMUS PF AUG
rev: PAX AUG

Cornelia Salonina - wife of Gallienus - was named Augusta in 253 when her husband and Valerian became co-Augusti; a title which she would maintain for 15 years thereafter.

It wasn't a happy and glorious time, of course. Valerian was dead by 260, and her husband spent the rest of his time putting down various insurrections from within the Empire whilst dealing with invasions by the Goths, Sasanians and Sarmatians along with the various Germanic tribes; and doing all of this as his own military officers and councillors schemed against him (after all, it had to be someone's fault, and Roman political/military theory by then was along the lines of 'if we're winning, we demand more tributes; if we're losing, just kill the Emperor.')

Salonina. ca. 256-257
Joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus.
AR Antoninianus. 21mm.
Rome. RIC V.1 Salonina 71

Obv: CORN SALONINA AVG
Draped and diademed bust right on crescent.

Rev: VESTA AE-TERNA
Vesta, draped and standing left, holding Victory in right hand and scepter in left hand.




Salonina. ca. 255-258
Joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus.
AR Antoninianus. 21mm, 3.4g
Samosata mint.
RIC V.1 63(j).1 (listed as Antioch or Samosata)

Obv: CORN SALONINA AVG
Draped and diademed bust right on crescent.

Rev: CONCORDIA AVGG
Gallienus standing right facing Salonina standing left, hands clasped

Gordian III
A.D. 241-243
AE Sestertius
28x29mm 16gm
IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
P M TR P V COS III P P S-C; Apollo seated left, holding branch.
cf. RIC IV Rome 303a


Rome 303 has COS II, while this coin looks like COS III. Rome 248b is an irregular coin listed with COS III

Here is a Tet from Phillip I in Alexandria. The rev inscription states that it is from year 5, which corresponds to 247 or 248 AD: