Howdy; :welcome: I love lincolns!!!! But my collection is not limited to lincolns only so i'm posting this coin to see if there is anyone who may have the expertise on this type of coinage if you can please explain the history of the coin and whatever other information you may have about this coin.....I want to learn!!!! I was told that it is a silver double denarius ....Not 100% sure tho... PROBUS PROBUS in Negative ( Obverse ) PROBUS (Reverse) PROBUS in Negative (Reverse)
Well, it's definitely not silver through and through. Probably silver wash. I think it is: RIC 644 Probus AE Antoninianus. Siscia, 281 AD. IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / CLEMENTIA TEMP, Probus standing right, holding sceptre, receiving Victory from Jupiter standing left, holding sceptre. Officina letter in lower centre. Mintmark XXI
that information was helpful and correct as I just researched on http://probvs.net/probvs/ thanx:thumb:
Double K, you're welcome. Is there anything else you wish to know? This is a common enough issue and not worth a lot even in the best of condition. Hope to see you hangin' around the old Ancient discussions.
I find this type of coinage very interesting and historical due to the time period it is connected to. It's a wonder everytime I hold this coin whether i'm just analysising or just fascinated. I look forward to expanding my collection in the near future. Thanx for your expertise!!!!:hail:
It's always a "wonder" to hold one of these little 2000 year old discs. My oldest coin is around 2500 years old. Can you image what it's seen and who may have held it? Maybe no worth note, but it's still amazing.
Thanx Martin ;:thumb: so my question is do you know any of the history on this particular version of the coin and its mint H ?
Minted in the city of Antioch on A.D. 276. There were 8 workshops operating in Antioch at this time and they each identified their output with a letter. In this case it is workshop 8 identified by the letter H. Regards, Martin
Help me with these. The OP coin strikes me as RIC 922 rather than 920 because it shows the emperor receiving a Victory rather than a globe. My three (E., H and ED) seem to share this. My second coin (B.) seems a 920 with the globe offering the footnote 2 (page 119) version with the eagle atop the scepter. RIC 922 lists 9 officina which is good since my ED is #9. Looking at the number of variations listed for these officina numbers gets really scary. My first coin has the reverse of RIC 920 but the obverse legend lacks PF as found in all of the others. That makes it an RIC 921 (right?). I am wholly unclear of what was in the brains of the guys who separated these coins into various RIC number groups and why some of the variations got a new number and some did not. I am also totally ignorant of scholarship since RIC was released in 1933. My H coin seems very different style from the others. Is it Antioch? There was a time I started to get interested in collecting Probus but soon decided that I was not comfortable paying for the series rarities and did not find the RIC listings convincing. What is the current standard reference?
