Yet another victoriatus, from the Rome mint this time

The pentagram is one of the scarcer symbols and it is a pentagram but it wears quickly and looks like a star afterwards. You can see that there are some areas not filled in on your example as well as the RBW example. It's an interesting issue and one I hope to find one of these days as it was minted in Etruria and is linked to the massive "Staff and Club" issue(and an anonymous issue not in Crawford) that I've been studying and collecting photos and information about for a while. Crawford suggests that Marcellus minted the pentagram issue and then passed his treasury on to Piso who took over his command in Etruria and minted the latter issue. The link is confirmed by a common die used to mint coins of both series(a victoriatus reverse IIRC but I don't have my notes at ahand).

 

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AH!!! Thanks for that info! Now I LOVE this coin!

LOL, I could be a trouble-maker as a kid, so I don't think I won a lotta stars from the teachers... I think I will keep to my thought that this is a nice little silver-star that I won!

 

that's a great lookin' coin RS!

one of these has been on the list for quite a while. a while back there was a thread about coins you weren't able to get.

there was one auction for a victoriatus that still haunts me.

 

You republican guys & gals always make me so jealous because I don't have any!

 

There is a very easy solution to that...

 

Just what you all want...another bidder!

 

LOL, Naaww... there is plenty of room!

 

No there's not!

 

LOL, I am literally LAUGHING at my screen! The emoticon made it!

 

Emoticons for the win!

 

WRONG!


LOL
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I agree!