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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2937246, member: 75937&quot;]Yes! Keep Saturn in Saturnalia!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]714509[/ATTACH] </p><p>&quot;Saturnus,&quot; from a set of eight plates by Goltzius. After the monochrome paintings by Polidoro for the courtyard wall in the quarter of St.Paul&#039;s Convent, on the Quirinal at Rome, now called Monte Cavallo.</p><p>Dutch, 1592</p><p>Printed engraving on paper</p><p>355 mm x 212 mm</p><p>British Museum Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you very much to my Secret Saturnalia benefactor! Three coins! Wonderful additions to my collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]714511[/ATTACH] </p><p>Postumus, AD 260-269</p><p>Roman AR Antoninianus; 2.39 g, 19.4 mm, 12 h</p><p>Cologne, AD 265-268</p><p>Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right</p><p>Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, holding globe and transverse scepter</p><p>Refs: RIC 80; Cohen 295; DeWitte 247; RCV 10977; Hunter 75</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]714520[/ATTACH] </p><p>Claudius II &quot;Gothicus&quot;, AD 268-270</p><p>Roman billon Antoninianus; 3.12 g, 18.2 mm, 1 h</p><p>Rome, issue I, Sept 268-end 269</p><p>Obv: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right</p><p>Rev: IOVI STATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding scepter and thunderbolt</p><p>Refs: RIC 52 var.; Cohen 124; MER/RIC temp. 262; RCV 11341; Normanby 595</p><p><br /></p><p>And this tiny nummus, which I will have to rephotograph in natural sunlight:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]714531[/ATTACH] </p><p>Marcian, AD 450-457</p><p>Roman Æ nummus; 1.41 g, 10.3 mm, 12 h</p><p>Constantinople, AD 450-457</p><p>Obv: D N MARCIANVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust, right</p><p>Rev: Monogram in wreath:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]714534[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ꚛ above; CON in exergue</p><p>Refs: RIC 546; RCV 21395[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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