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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Elks, post: 7354071, member: 119573&quot;]The Plevna hoard gives the best indication for dating the Divi series.&nbsp; This did not contain any coins from the last issues of Trajan Decius except for two Divi coins.&nbsp; They are present in reasonable numbers in hoards deposited at a later date.&nbsp; The extent to which production carried over into the reign of Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian is conjectural but if so, it could only have been a short time because it was quickly replaced by a substantive issue in all <i>officinae</i> for both of them very early in their brief reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>My study of these coins, carried out at the same time as a more general look at the coinage of Trajan Decius and his family, showed extensive die links within the series, indicating that they were almost certainly the product of a single <i>officina</i> in the Rome mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the Divi series has long been associated with the attempts by Decius to restore former religious standards, for which he blamed the tribulations of Rome at that time (and hence his persecution of Christians), it seems most likely to me that there was another reason.&nbsp; It was during his reign that <i>denarii</i> of former emperors (notably those of the Severans) were being overstruck as <i>antoniniani</i>. Since this might have been considered as an insult to those emperors who had been voted divine status by the Senate.and the Divi coins were intended to appease that.&nbsp; In doing this he was also following in the footsteps of his inspiration, Trajan, because his restoration series had fulfilled a similar purpose as part of a coinage reform.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that Gallus and Volusian continued to overstrike earky denarii would support the continuation of the Divi coins into their reign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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