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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7840306, member: 44316&quot;]I have a web site &quot;Barbarous Radiates: Unofficial coins of the Gallo-Roman empire struck AD 259-274&quot;</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/BarbarousRadiates.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/BarbarousRadiates.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/BarbarousRadiates.html</a></p><p>which is an introduction to the subject. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the OP coin is nice enough to be official, in spite of the misspelling. Most of the official coins have problems or one sort or another. The styles of the portrait and reverse are normal.&nbsp; Pronounce &quot;CAESAR&quot; to yourself and you will see the &quot;A&quot; is unnecessary. Maybe the engraver was an advocate of improved and simplified spelling!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my best Tetricus II:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348563[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>20-19 mm. 2.65 grams.</p><p>C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES</p><p>SPES AVGG</p><p>Spes (hope) advancing left, holding out flower</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is a much-smaller barbarous radiate:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348568[/ATTACH] </p><p>9 mm. 0.57 grams.</p><p>For such a tiny coin it is remarkable that there is legend, although blundered, on the flan. </p><p>ex Baldwin&#039;s in London, Feb. 1988.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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