Ancients => Allectus & Galley => Quinarius anyone?

I think this coin is kinda rugged lookin' ... cool galley

Allectus. Romano-British Emperor, AE Quinarius
“C” mint
AD 293-296
Diameter: 19 mm
Weight: 2.72 grams
Obverse: Radiate and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: Galley left, with mast; waves below; QC
Reference: RIC V 124; Rogiet 1027; Burnett, Coinage 1027
Othere: 6h … black patina, minor deposits

 

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Ah you came away with a galley eh? I was tempted to bid on one of the Allectus but my money was tied up elsewhere with coins I was more interested in.

Excellent portrait of Allectus the die cutters definitely gained some talent from when they first started under Carausius

 

Cool galley Steve

Q

 

Very nice. That did not come cheap in such great condition. Well-done!

 

Had trouble finding any animals on this coin & then realized there must be barnacles on the hull.

 

Funny!

Great coin lil bro.

 

Nice coin, great portrait.

 

Thanks for the coin-compliments, gang ...

Collect89 => you may be correct about the barnacles!! ... for the record, not "all" of my coins have animals => I tend to be attracted to coins with ships and coins with weapons as well

 

Ah thats a nice rugged boat on that one. Now you need to get a coin with Noah's arch on it. Then you can have boats aaaaaannnnddd animals...2 of every kind.

 

Trouble for sure.

 

Yah, I'm pretty sure that this is my first "Quinarius" ... what's a Quinarius?

 

Ummm, hey Doug (or anyone) => was a Quinarius always around, or did it merely show-up around this time (curious why I wouldn't see/own more of them?)

thanks

 

Allectus => yah, I'm not too sure what "salt" you give ERIC II's rarity-scale, but that is a discussion for another thread (or several "previous" threads)

Regardless => and merely as a stat => Allectus ranks 92nd out of the 207 Rulers (and/or their mates) that were critiqued in ERIC II

 

I really like the galley, because it attempts to be a 3-D drawing (it's actually a pretty good effort ... hats off to you, little brass-carving dude)





... I'm gonna try to find a "photo" (rendition) of what this galley must have looked like back in the day (ummm, does anybody already have that image?)

 

sweet galley and a "strong" chin on allectus.

 

I have a thing for gnarly little boats look at the demonstration of Phoenician sea power.

 

That's a great lookin' galley, A-Noob ...

=> man, there are a whole lotta dudes packed onto that boat, eh? (it looks a bit like one of those dragon-boat canoes?!!)

 

Wow Steve, i love these galley coins, being an old salty coin guy, i love the smell of the Ocean..one thing remember all ships have rats, i'm sure there's a few on your coin somewhere..

 

I have no idea why numismatists call this a quinarius other than it bears a Q and is smaller than the antoninianus. Mine is 1.9g; Steve's is 2.72g. How does that make 1/4 of a coin usually weighing in the 3's? I suspect it has no silver if it was a 1/4 unit but I am in no way certain that this ID is correct.

 

Doug => thanks for the response (it is a bit of a mystery, eh?)

Sidenote => I am a bit surprised that your example weighs that little (most of the examples I found on Wildwinds, etc, were closer to my coin's weight?) ... several were actually heavier than my example (I guess the ol' 'specifications" were fairly lax at the ol' mint?)

... thanks again for the response