Ancients => Six days o' fun => Six new coins => Please join in!!

Yah, apparently I went a bit nuts during this last week ... I have "6" new coins to show you comrades!!

However, rather than "blort" them out all at once, I'd like to release one coin per day for the next 6 days ...

Oh, and "PLEASE" post your own examples!! (I love seeing other people's coins!!)

Anyway ... there is a bit of a theme, but for now, I will merely post my first coin outta the six!!

I like you guys ... I hope that you dive-in and check-in occasionally during the next 6 days!!?

Valerian I, Billon , Antoninianus
253-260 AD
Diameter: 23 mm
Weight: 3.76 grams
Obverse: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, Valerian bust right radiate cuirassed and draped
Reverse: VOTA ORBIS, Two victories attaching shield inscribed SC to a palm-tree
Other: rare with two victories holding shield





=> again ... "please" post your own examples!!

 

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Nice catch steve! Give me a moment to dig up my crappy Valerian...

 

I'm not particularly drawn to Roman Imperial coins but this one is very appealing! Good catch, coinbro!

 

Too lazy to post the newer one with the black background, so this is oldschool. Still looks the same.


Valerian I (253 - 260 A.D.)
AR Antoninianus
O: VALERIANVS P F AVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Valerian I.
R:ORIENS AVGG - Sol, holding globe, raising hand.
Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. 2nd emission
3.5gm
RIC 13

 

awesome!! => thanks for jumpin' in with both feet, my friends!!

=> bring it!!

 

Nice coin lil bro. Six coins eh? I have four to post yet. I just can't seem to catch up to you. But, here is a nice Valerian I AE20 from Alexandria Troas:

 

I don't have a particularly great Valerian ant. so I'll show a not particularly nice sestertius with a half decent portrait for this late period. Shortly after this coin the silver in the 'silver' coins dropped to a point that making bronze coins made no sense.

 

Here is one other I would like to show.

Antoninianus
OBV: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS PF AVG, radiate, draped cuirassed bust right
REV: VIRTVS AVGG, Valerian and Gallienus facing each other, one holding spear and globe, the other Victory and spear
Struck at Antioch, 255-56 AD
RIC 293

 

Great coins, fellas ... thanks for joining-in!!

 

I really like the desert-patina on this new coin of mine ...

... I seem to be a bit of a sucka for desert patina?!!

 

Man, I want to post tomorrow's coin already, but I must refrain and stick to my guns!!

... I must resist!!





==>>> please ... help me by posting more of your Valerian coins!!

 

I have no Valerian coins to show.

But here's some valerian.


Supposedly has serotonin-raising properties, good for what ails ya. Has a calming effect. I'm sending a bushel to you Steve.

 

uh......dude............i don't think that valerian man.......i think.....ohhhh....woooooooooooooow man.


but the valerian coins are nice...great pick up stevex, can wait for the next 5.




any of you got any doritos?

 

=> man, that is "not" the way that I wanna spend my retirement years!! (used as a human footstool and then eventually forced to swallow molten metal ... not good!!)

 

Interesting thread. Something quite scarce to show instead af an antoninian, although it's not a new entry

This is a middle bronze (as) minted c. AD 255-258

Valerian, As
Rome mint, AD 255-258
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter. S - C in field
10.0 gr
Ref : RCV # 10032, Cohen # 96

Q

 

Great coins all

 

well, I guess it's time to move onto the next coin, eh?