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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Claudius_Gothicus, post: 5188794, member: 116315&quot;]One of the good things about being a specialist in a certain numismatic field is that, if you search well and have a bit of luck on your side, you can stumble upon an interesting type that was misattributed or ignored by the other bidders. That&#039;s exactly what happened to me today, when I snagged this coin for little over the starting bid:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213923[/ATTACH]</p><p>Volusian (251-253), Antoninianus, Antioch mint, 1st emission.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: IM C V AF GAL VEND VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind;</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: AEQVITAS AVGG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopia;</p><p><br /></p><p>The auction house had misattributed it as the common RIC 166 from the Rome mint, but it clearly isn&#039;t due to the difference in legend and portrait style. So, why is this coin special, then? Now, at first glance it simply appears to be an unlisted variation of RIC 225, omitting the &quot;P&quot; from &quot;IMP&quot; (something which I believe only happened twice, the second time on the coinage of Vabalathus), but that wouldn&#039;t be the whole story, would it? To answer this question we need to also take a look at the reverse: all known antoniniani of Volusian from the Antioch mint feature the reverse legend &quot;AEQVITAS AVG&quot;; for his father Trebonianus Gallus, however, alongside the standard &quot;AEQVITAS AVG&quot;, they also struck some coins with the legend &quot;AEQVITAS AVGG&quot;, featuring two &quot;G&quot; ; this coin is identified in RIC as RIC 81 and seems to be quite rare, I only found one on the internet, on the &quot;Four Bad Years&quot; website (the example on Wildwinds has the wrong photo), and it&#039;s a reverse die match to this coin. So, from this analysis, in which [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] helped me greatly in sorting through the existing reference works, we can deduce that we are looking at an apparently unique and unpublished mule combining an obverse of Volusian with a reverse of Gallus, although, to be fair, mules of this time period are relatively common, featuring plenty of different obverse and reverse combinations. Anyway, I can&#039;t wait to hold this coin in my hands!</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your mules/hybrid coins, your Antioch antoniniani of Volusian or anything else you feel is relevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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