Wow, this is a very attractive example. I love the portrait! Is the symbol in the exergue a mint mark that distinguishes the Ticinium mint?
Thanks a lot for the link. This is very helpful.
Very cool. The mint mark TR is clearly visible. This is Tripolis in Phrygia (modern Turkey).
I agree. I found this one, which fetched an insanely high price: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7862445
I found this nice Tacitus Antoninian on Ebay and thought it was a good buy at 46 euros. Ruling briefly in 275-276, Tacitus was an old man when he...
Thanks a lot for the literature reference and the link. This is very interesting, so even the attribution to Cologne may in many cases be wrong....
A few years ago I was in Luxor, Egypt and I stayed in the famous Winter Palace Hotel. Behind the reception I noticed a board with several...
The lable on the hand axe says that it was found in western Algiers, i.e. in Africa.
Cool items, but "artefact" means "hand made" or "man made", which can hardly be applied to fossils and moon rocks.
Good points and good question. I don't know if "my theory" holds up with coin of Valerian. Your acsearch shows a rather unsystematic attribution...
I don't claim to know better but simply assumed that it must have been more than one mint simply based on different styles. At the time of...
After some more stylistic comparisons, I think that the coin below is from the mint of Rome: [ATTACH] It looks like the type was minted at...
A Cologne issue. I have the same type: [ATTACH]
This is an early issue from Rome with the somewhat scarcer legend VICTORIAE AVG IT(erum) GERM(anicae) In fact, I read: VICTORIAE AVG V IT GERM...
This coin is from Antioch.
Here are two early issues, which I think predate the battle against the Alamanni. Both coins are probably from the mint of Rome The first coin...
Here are two typical issues from Cologne: The GERMANICVS MAX V (Germanicus Maximus Quintem) series commemorates Gallienus' victory over the...
Here is an issue from Antioch (VICTORIA GERMAN). The style is completely different to the western mint issues. Also I think the type with Victoria...
This is definitely correct. Your coin was minted at Lyon/Lugdunum. It has the typical Lyon style. This would suggest that the type was minted at...
My coin certainly looks like a western mint issue to me. I have many exemplars from Cologne and Lyon, but stylistically I find this coin to be...
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