A coin outside of my usual hunting grounds-Quintillus

I saw this on the Naville site a few ays ago and I really liked the look of it. I just received notice from Naville that I was the winning bidder. I have 2 LRBs, this will be #3. Somehow the portrait just spoke to me. I also really like the provenance-it is an Ex E E Clain-Stefanelli coin.

Please post your coins of Quintillus, or coins that just spoke to you and that you had to have.

Quintillus, 270 Antoninianus circa 270, Æ 17.5mm., 2.67g. Radiate and draped bust r. Rev. Concordia standing l., sacrificing over altar and holding double cornucopiae. C 17. RIC 13.
About Extremely Fine
From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli collection.

 

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I certainly would have been impressed also. The portrait is very expressive. A nice bold strike. You can even see the emperors's Adams apple.

 

Very nice Quintillus, nice provenance, and a great auction to win from @Orfew ! Lots of detail on the obverse. Well done...

My Quintillus:

RI Quintillus 270 CE Ant - Rome mint - Radiate-Victoria RIC Vi 33

 

Very nice!


Quintillus
Æ(S) Antoninianus
O: IMP CM AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right.
R: FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna standing left with rudder and cornucopiae. Z in exergue.
Rome Mint, 270 A.D.
2.65g
18mm
Appleshaw hoard 305; RIC 19 var (cornucopiae)

 

Wow very nice!

Thanks,
Jacob

 

A nice one @Orfew

 

Neat coin with an excellent provenance!

 

My best Quintillus... I don’t have the details handy but the portrait is fun to look at as his coins are often in rough shape!

 

It's a nice looking portrait, Andrew, but properly speaking your new coin is not among the LRB. Its a common mistake, but the bronze antoniniani of the late 3rd century are technically regarded as silver coinage, hence their inclusion in RSC. That is because of their denomination, which originated as a true silver coin. The period for LRB properly begins with the currency reforms of Diocletian in 294.

 

What’s funny is... as he was emperor for such a short time, either he was experimenting with lots of fun facial hair styles while life was good... or die engravers didn’t have more than rough description of him to go from.

 

Great coin @Orfew - I dig the cool 1970's style mustache and hair. I wonder if he used a blow dryer on his hair? I swear it looks like he had a perm.

 

Great portrait Orfew.

 

Quintillus was emperor immediately before Aurelian who made one of his actions as emperor the cleaning up of the mess called the mint at Rome under Felissimus and reforming the currency which had declined to a terrible level. It shoud be no surprise that it is hard to find well struck, full legend coins of Quintillus. My best:

 

Bought this in JA's weekly auction:



Quintillus, AD 270.
Billon Antoninianus, 20mm, 3.7g, 6h; Mediolanum (Milan) mint.
Obv.: IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG; Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: FIDES MILITVM; Fides standing left, holding standard and spear; in right field, Є.
Reference: RIC V(a) 18

 

Fantastic OP coin. Quintillus had an interesting reign. He became emperor, Aurelian revolted, and Quintillus promptly committed suicide. That's about it. He ruled the empire for probably no more than 6 months, and likely half that time is more accurate (ie. 3 months tops).

 

That's a really nice portrait. Quintillus coins typically either have compact flans that lose a good part of the legend, or broad enough flans with flat strikes that result in the same problem. Happily, yours at least has the full QVINTILLVS there.

Mine has some flat areas, and as it is is my best of five.

QUINTILLUS
AE Antoninianus. 2.8g, 20.9mm. Rome mint, end 270 AD. RIC 35; New RIC V/1 Online temp #1132. O: IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: VIRTVS AVG, Virtus standing left, holding shield which rests on ground in right hand and spear in left hand; B in right field.

I continued my horrible run with the ex Dattari coins at Naville (scoring zero out of three I bid on). I did win this one that has been on my want list for awhile now. It's also ex Clain-Stefanelli and I'd say this particular example qualifies as a coin that spoke to me.

PONTOS, Amisos
AE21. 7.14g, 21mm. Time of Mithradates VI, circa 85-65 BC. SNG BM Black Sea 1219. O: Head of Amazon right, wearing wolf-skin headdress. R: AMI-ΣO[Y], Nike advancing right, holding palm branch and wreath.
Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

 

Very nice Pontos z!

 

Thanks! Hard to beat an Amazon in a wolfskin headdress, in my books.

 

Nice coins of Quintillus, OP and posts. I've just recently got a example of him. It leaves much to be desired, but it was inexpensive, I had none and the likeness on this one seemed to be noticeably different from that of Claudius ll Gothicus I was always under the impression the likeness on his coins was merely that of his brother and previous emperor, but I question that now. Nothing is sure on him except he was emperor, his reign was short and he was killed. Being championed by the Senate and his untimely demise, he is elevated to rank with Galba and Pertinax, although his coins do not seemingly bring the premium theirs does.

 

Love the portrait on that @Orfew I've been looking for a nice Quintillus myself so I can attest they are hard to find.