CAESAR GAIVS VIBIVS TREBONIANVS GALLVS AVGVSTVS

Here is another coin I like;
Trebonianus Gallus AR Antoninianus. IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left holding pileus and sceptre. RIC 37, RSC 63. Sear 9636.

Thanks for looking

 

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I seem to be following all your posts... nice T-Bone!

Mine's a bit rusty:


RI Trebonianus Gallus 251-253 CE Ant 20mm 3.0g Apollo Lyre RIC 32 RSC 20

 

did you check out my Nero Claudius Drusus thread, some thinks it is real, some fake, so I am going to send it off to be graded by NGC and finally find out real or fake, ancient coins is a fun hobby! give me your opinion?

 

I had! I am post #2 with his wife, Antonia.

 

TREBONIANUS GALLUS
AR Antoninianus
OBVERSE:IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right
REVERSE: LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and transverse scepter
Struck at Uncertain mint (Milan?), AD 252
3.5g, 21mm
RIC 70; Cohen 68; RCV 9636; Hunter 50

 

T-Bone!!! My favorite ineffectual emperor! Break him out of that slab, @ancient times !

That's not RIC 37, though, because its obverse legend reads IMP C C VIB ..., not IMP CAE C VIB ... Moreover, RIC 37 has the LIBERTAS AVGG legend, not LIBERTAS PVBLICA. Rather, it is RIC 70, from an uncertain mint, like @Bing 's example, above. This uncertain mint has been variously thought to be Mediolanum, Viminacium, or a special issue of the Rome mint.

Here's my only Libertas reverse type of Trebonianus Gallus:


Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.
Roman AR antoninianus, 2.82 g, 20.4 mm, 1 h.
Rome, 1st officina, 5th emission, mid-AD 253.
Obv: IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: LIBERTAS AVGG, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and transverse scepter, legs crossed, leaning on column.
Refs: RIC 39; Cohen 67; Sear 9635; Hunter p. cv; ERIC II 78.

I like it because Libertas is looking casual, leaning on a column with legs crossed. Kinda reminds me of ...

 

It is fake. Unequivocably. Other examples of the known fake were posted in that thread so that you and others could compare and see for yourselves.

Don't bother to send it to NGC; NGC has already rendered an opinion of your coin. Barry Murphy and David Vagi are the ancient coins division of NGC, and in your thread Barry confirmed what others had already said: your coin is a known fake.

 

Thanks