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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7383418, member: 75937"]Excellent acquisition, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]! I <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-first-issue-for-faustina-i-ad-138.367270/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-first-issue-for-faustina-i-ad-138.367270/">know</a> -- and love -- the feeling of finding a rarity that slips under the radar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The issues of Trebonianus Gallus with the IMP CC VIB TREB GALLVS AVG legend have been traditionally attributed to the mint at Mediolanum (Milan).</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear (RIC 5, vol. III, p. 227) notes there is considerable uncertainty about not only the location of the mint traditionally attributed to Mediolanum, but its actual operation during Gallus' reign. He writes,</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>"Rome continued to be the principal mint throughout this reign and was supplemented ... by antoniniani from Antioch .... Attempts have been made to identify a second provincial mint which produced silver coinage with a more abbreviated form of obverse legend than the regular products of Rome (IMP C C VIB instead of IMP CAE C VIB). Both Milan and Viminacium have been proposed as the source of these coins and it is also possible that they represent a separate issue from Rome itself. In the following listings they are described as 'uncertain mint'."</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I don't believe the coins with the IMP CC VIB TREB GALLVS AVG legend are simply a product of the Rome mint with an alternative obverse inscription. In addition to stylistic differences in the portraits, the silver content of these issues is different than those of the Rome and Antioch mints. Gallus's coins of the Antioch mint average only 18.9% silver, whereas those issued in Rome were less debased (30.9%), with the least debased being the unknown branch mint previously believed to have been Mediolanum (37.9% silver). See Pannekeet's interesting paper about debasement <a href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The issues raised about the circumstances and location of its mintage resulted in a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-scarcer-trebonianus-gallus-antoniniani.348139/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-scarcer-trebonianus-gallus-antoniniani.348139/">thought-provoking discussion</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have five such coins, but I'll only show the one with the most photogenic bust. So photogenic, in fact, that T-Bone insists he's "too sexy for Milan."</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]P5mtclwloEQ[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-ivno-martialis-mediolanum-antoninianus-jpg.1040375/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.14 g, 23.5 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Branch mint (traditionally attributed to Mediolanum), AD 252.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: IVNO MARTIALIS, Juno seated left, holding corn-ears (?) and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 69; Cohen 46; RCV 9631; Hunter 49.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7383418, member: 75937"]Excellent acquisition, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]! I [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-first-issue-for-faustina-i-ad-138.367270/']know[/URL] -- and love -- the feeling of finding a rarity that slips under the radar. The issues of Trebonianus Gallus with the IMP CC VIB TREB GALLVS AVG legend have been traditionally attributed to the mint at Mediolanum (Milan). Sear (RIC 5, vol. III, p. 227) notes there is considerable uncertainty about not only the location of the mint traditionally attributed to Mediolanum, but its actual operation during Gallus' reign. He writes, [INDENT]"Rome continued to be the principal mint throughout this reign and was supplemented ... by antoniniani from Antioch .... Attempts have been made to identify a second provincial mint which produced silver coinage with a more abbreviated form of obverse legend than the regular products of Rome (IMP C C VIB instead of IMP CAE C VIB). Both Milan and Viminacium have been proposed as the source of these coins and it is also possible that they represent a separate issue from Rome itself. In the following listings they are described as 'uncertain mint'."[/INDENT] I don't believe the coins with the IMP CC VIB TREB GALLVS AVG legend are simply a product of the Rome mint with an alternative obverse inscription. In addition to stylistic differences in the portraits, the silver content of these issues is different than those of the Rome and Antioch mints. Gallus's coins of the Antioch mint average only 18.9% silver, whereas those issued in Rome were less debased (30.9%), with the least debased being the unknown branch mint previously believed to have been Mediolanum (37.9% silver). See Pannekeet's interesting paper about debasement [URL='https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus']here[/URL]. The issues raised about the circumstances and location of its mintage resulted in a [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-scarcer-trebonianus-gallus-antoniniani.348139/']thought-provoking discussion[/URL]. I have five such coins, but I'll only show the one with the most photogenic bust. So photogenic, in fact, that T-Bone insists he's "too sexy for Milan." [MEDIA=youtube]P5mtclwloEQ[/MEDIA] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-ivno-martialis-mediolanum-antoninianus-jpg.1040375/[/IMG] Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR antoninianus, 3.14 g, 23.5 mm, 5 h. Branch mint (traditionally attributed to Mediolanum), AD 252. Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right. Rev: IVNO MARTIALIS, Juno seated left, holding corn-ears (?) and scepter. Refs: RIC 69; Cohen 46; RCV 9631; Hunter 49.[/QUOTE]
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