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Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/15/2016 1:56 pm Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius Antoninus, known historically as Antoninus Pius, was a temperate and competent ruler. Aside from a handful of provincial rebellions (all readily suppressed), his reign was generally free of strife and drama. His signature strategic gambit was having the Antonine Wall constructed well to the north of Hadrian's Wall, thus thrusting the Roman defensive line in Britain forward into what today is Scotland. Respected, even revered, Antoninus Pius was one of those relatively few emperors who lived so long so as to peacefully die of natural causes. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff

DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 04/15/2016 2:02 pm Nice looking coin, that portrait really jumps out in high relief. Perhaps the excellent photography has some part to play also... Edited by DavidUK 04/15/2016 2:03 pm Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 04/15/2016 2:24 pm Very nice coin with an interesting reverse legend. He was consul three times as indicated by the COS III, The DES which I haven't seen very often means Designatus, which indicated that he is in the process of being elected to the COS again. This coin dates to late 139, early 140 AD. Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/15/2016 10:52 pm Quote: ...that portrait really jumps out in high relief. The obverse relief is especially high on this one. The dies would appear to have been fairly fresh, but imperfect. Examining the legends, evidently the "P" and "E" punches used were worn/damaged. Quote: This coin dates to late 139, early 140 AD. I've actually been doing a bit of research on this, and at first I came across an account stating that Antoninus Pius' third consulship lasted from 140 until or through 144 AD, which surely wasn't the case, even if coins continued to be marked COS III during that span. In looking at a detailed list of who held the two positions, what I see is that there was a lapse between his being consul in 139 and 140 and then not again until 145. The seller of the coin dated it to 144, and I've seen another reference work that asserts that DES IIII denotes that same date. I do have a question about the reverse design - to me there appears to be a small figure perched atop the spear shaft. Does anybody know who or what that is supposed to be? Colligo ergo sum Edited by Lucky Cuss 04/16/2016 6:31 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/18/2016 11:33 pm Quote: Examining the legends, evidently the "P" and "E" punches used were worn/damaged. I was thinking a little more about this tonight, and while the similarity in the malformation of the P's on the obverse is undeniable, the leap in logic to supposing that implies that individual letter punches were in use is over just too wide a chasm. What also undermines my projecting a modern technique onto the fashioning of an ancient coin also gets undermined when you look at the three N's which really resemble each other not al all. It's probably more likely that the defects in the P's and that E and actually one of the N's, too) are due to something having become lodged in crevices of the die, making for an effect more or less equivalent to that of a "strikethough" in today's terms. But in any case, I realize I jumped to a wrong conclusion without considering all the evidence, and may as well make my mea culpa* now before somebody calls me on it. Colligo ergo sum Edited by Lucky Cuss 04/19/2016 12:35 am Report this Post to the Staff
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