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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7888618, member: 99456"]Here's a nice Postumus Antoninianus that I think also shows well contrast between this fine coin with good silver (admittedly "good" still something in the 30% range at best) and a heavy flan and the coins that you perfectly describe as the "<i>debased & wretched looking coinage of the emperor Gallienus</i>"<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360839[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor</b>, AD 260-269, AR Antoninianus (21.6mm, 4.76g, 6h). Mint I (Treveri / Trier), 3rd emission, 1st phase, AD 263-265</p><p><b>Obv: </b>IMP C POSTVMVS PP AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas standing facing, head left, holding long caduceus and cornucopia</p><p><b>Ref:</b> <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.post.58" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.post.58" rel="nofollow">RIC V 58</a>; see: Mairat, J. (2014). <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f" rel="nofollow">The coinage of the Gallic Empire</a> [PhD thesis]. Oxford University, UK.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7888618, member: 99456"]Here's a nice Postumus Antoninianus that I think also shows well contrast between this fine coin with good silver (admittedly "good" still something in the 30% range at best) and a heavy flan and the coins that you perfectly describe as the "[I]debased & wretched looking coinage of the emperor Gallienus[/I]":happy: [ATTACH=full]1360839[/ATTACH] [B]Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor[/B], AD 260-269, AR Antoninianus (21.6mm, 4.76g, 6h). Mint I (Treveri / Trier), 3rd emission, 1st phase, AD 263-265 [B]Obv: [/B]IMP C POSTVMVS PP AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right [B]Rev: [/B]FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas standing facing, head left, holding long caduceus and cornucopia [B]Ref:[/B] [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.post.58']RIC V 58[/URL]; see: Mairat, J. (2014). [URL='https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f']The coinage of the Gallic Empire[/URL] [PhD thesis]. Oxford University, UK.[/QUOTE]
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