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 Posted 02/16/2019  08:35 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jagoedo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello,

Got this tiny one from lot a bought.
On the first look it looks like a Tetricus I coin but could also be a fake or from another ruler?
Could you guys help me out on this one?

Best,
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 Posted 02/16/2019  08:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is definitely a barbarous radiate, and I don't know enough about those to have any idea whether it can be attributed to Tetricus specifically.

I think it's too crude to be Tetricus, personally, but I might be completely wrong.
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 Posted 02/16/2019  11:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Albert to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My guess Valerian 1 but I'm no authority.
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 Posted 02/16/2019  8:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree most likely it's Tetricus.
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 Posted 02/17/2019  06:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ben to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like Tetricus but with the blundered legend, it could also be Victorinus (though I reckon this is a blundered ...T(TRI..., rather than ...ICTR...) - certainly it is a barbarous radiate supposed to represent a Gallic emperor.

I've been looking into these little coins recently, and I reckon this one matches well with the designs seen from the East of Britain (especially the layout of the figure's arms, with a horizontal line across the top of the torso terminating in curves that join to the objects held, which is how a lot of the coins are laid out in that batch I got from East Anglia).I couldn't find a good official match for this type, but I think this description is believable:

Female figure (presumably Pax?), radiate, standing right by a sacrifical jug(?), head left, olive branch in left hand, scepter in right.

I'm just guessing that the onion to the right is a jug, based on some of the stylised jugs seen on imitations of Tetricus II. The whole design is odd, because the figure is female, but is wearing a radiate crown. The onion might well be based on other things, such as an Ivy leaf, a peacock, a lyre or perhaps even a child. Perhaps someone will come along who recognises what it is supposed to be.
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 Posted 02/19/2019  10:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think the VICTRI on the obverse is pretty clearly Victorinus if that's an option. But could still be Tetricus, depending on what the originals said.
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 Posted 02/21/2019  04:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jagoedo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you on helping me out on this one. Numismatics is such a great domain. I hope I will ever have time to start on ancients cause right now I'm stuck with France, Belgium and Germany and that's already a lot!
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I'm stuck with France, Belgium and Germany and that's already a lot!


Yes, even ONE of those countries is a lot, especially if you go back in history for some centuries.
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