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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1892462, member: 56859&quot;]This one was vexing since I&#039;m not very experienced with Roman Imperials.&nbsp; It&#039;s from a mixed lot (Goldberg, Sept. 2013), many of which I never got around to identifying.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the initial sorting and labeling I marked it as Quintillus; the &quot;...ILLVS...&quot; made it pretty easy (plus the portrait <i>looks</i> like Quintillus).</p><p><br /></p><p>Tonight I was taking pictures and trying to attribute it and was stumped by the rest of the readable legend:&nbsp; &quot;...ILLVS IIII C&quot;.&nbsp; Huh?&nbsp; It should read &quot;...ILLVS AVG&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>My RIC resources are limited to free online sites.&nbsp; After going through ERIC, Wildwinds, V-coins, CNG, and MA-Shops it finally occurred to me that the &quot;IIII C&quot; might just be a deconstructed/poorly rendered AVG.&nbsp; Is that the case?&nbsp; The reverse has a similarly bungled legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a nice enough portrait.&nbsp; Weak reverse, centering issues, and there&#039;s a hard lump of verdigris in his crown, but apparently most of his have an assortment of these problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322693[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Quintillus antoninianus</b></p><p><b>270 AD</b></p><p>Rome mint, 3rd officina</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; IMP C M AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG; radiate draped bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; VICTORIA AVG; Victory walking right, holding wreath and palm; Γ in right field</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; RIC Vi 33; Cohen 70[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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