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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 8342814, member: 75937&quot;]Many Cilician coins are of thin fabric; this one is too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll contribute this one, one of the last coins in the Roman provincial series to depict the Three Graces.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/volusian-nicaea-three-graces-jpg.1218326/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Volusian as Augustus, late AD 251-AD 253.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 20.1 mm, 5.91 g, 1 h.</p><p>Bithynia, Nicaea, AD 151.</p><p>Obv: ΑΥ Κ ΒΕΙΒ ΓΑΛΛΟC ΟΥΟΛΟCCΙΑΝΟC, radiate head, right.</p><p>Rev: ΝΙΚ Α Ι Ε ΩΝ, Three Graces standing side by side, hair in bun: Grace 1 head left, Graces 2 and 3 heads right, holding undefined objects.</p><p>Refs: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/311" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/311" rel="nofollow">RPC IX, 311</a>; Sear <i>GI</i> 4366; BMC 13.174,139-140; SNG Von Aulock 712; Imhoof-Blumer <i>NC</i> 201; Waddington <i>RG</i> 498,784; Von Vacano 392; Staal 53.1.1; Weiser 165-167.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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