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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Claudius_Gothicus, post: 7798964, member: 116315&quot;]I have delved deeper into these coins in the past few days, and I&#039;ve discovered that this reverse was also reused for Florian&#039;s first emission from Siscia, so I thought it would be worth it to talk about them too. There are a total of seven known examples, apparently; they all have the obverse legend IMP C M AN FLORIANVS P AVG, and they come with all of the bust types used for his first emission at the city: B1 (one example), B2 (one example), D1 (three examples), D2 (two examples); three of them are in museums. RIC V Online lists all of the busts except for B1, because apparently an example of that type only surfaced in March of 2020 (it&#039;s a shame that I only started collecting ancients a couple of months later!):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media.biddr.com/media/img/auction_lots/979/1042096_1581695958.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><i>(Image courtesy of Münzzentrum Rheinland)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the coin you will probably have noticed something odd, though: it&#039;s from the third officina rather than the first! Two of the seven coins are from the first, and reuse the original reverse die:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339064[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>(Image courtesy of RIC V Online)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The other five, however, use a completely new one, and are all reverse die matches. I wonder if there&#039;s a special reason the third officina adopted this design, and also if it exists for the second one as well, and an example simply hasn&#039;t surfaced up yet. Finally, it&#039;s worth mentioning that, while this particular reverse was discontinued, a very similar one was introduced for Probus at the same mint, with the almost identical legend VICTORIA AVG N:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/jacquier/046/image00451.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><i>(Image courtesy of Paul-Francis Jacquier)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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