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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8273021, member: 26430&quot;]Those are great examples, and great post. I don&#039;t have a 5th (AFAIK) but</p><p>I do have at least one 4th Em. of Lyons. It&#039;s actually my favorite&nbsp; Probus, even though it&#039;s not an exciting bust type.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was part of Philippe Gysen&#039;s (1964-2014) collection (apparently one of his first, number #5 in his inventory, acq. in 1992 from Berliner Münzauktion 74) and cited in Bastien Suppl. II (196e) (reportedly, I haven&#039;t checked). This is the ProbusCoins.fr image (<a href="https://probuscoins.fr/coin?id=555" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://probuscoins.fr/coin?id=555" rel="nofollow">ID 555</a>), I believe the same one used in Oliva &amp; Hiland&#039;s (2013) book (p. 79, no 9, which luckily <a href="https://www.academia.edu/5351547/Le_regne_de_lEmpereur_Probus_Histoire_et_Numismatique_276-282_apr._J.-C._S.Hiland_C.Oliva_Ed._III_MONETAE_octobre_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/5351547/Le_regne_de_lEmpereur_Probus_Histoire_et_Numismatique_276-282_apr._J.-C._S.Hiland_C.Oliva_Ed._III_MONETAE_octobre_2013" rel="nofollow">happens to be in the online .pdf preview</a>). Also, I think, a die match to [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] &#039;s example (from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/364335/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/364335/">CT Thread 364335</a>, 1 Aug 2020, a very helpful post -- including the replies -- on this type):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460343[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, does anyone know if/where the Gloucester 1960 hoard was published?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s hard to pick just one, of course, but I&#039;ve always thought Probus had the coolest and most interesting Roman Imperial coins. At least in terms of bust types. It helps, of course, that there were thousands of types (2,400 in ERIC II; and reportedly &gt;10 or 11,000 different types in the Alexander Missong collection at Vienna).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have nearly as many as I&#039;d like. Here are a couple favorite obverses (including what I think is my only spear-over-shoulder):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460339[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460340[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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