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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 7563588, member: 99554&quot;]I just added a new DIVO Victorinus lately; can&#039;t stop buying them when I saw one at a reasonable price. When a fellow collector is willing to let go a part of his collection, you go and jump on the occasion ! So this is my new baby and some interesting details about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304122[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>The history</b></p><p>Victorinus was assassinated at Cologne in autumn of 271 AD. Tetricus was consequently nominated as the new Emperor; but he only had a civilian rather than a military background. And here comes the almost unknown Domitianus; his usurpation may be explained as a revolt of a part of the army, whose headquarters were on the Rhine. There are three different possibilities about the minting of the DIVO VICTORINO series: 1) Domitianus. We have to admit it is very unlikely for him to have issued the coins in the name of the &quot;deified Victorinus , as it would then be difficult to understand why so few coins are known in his own name (only two until now) and so many in the name of Divo Victorino...</p><p><br /></p><p>But Domitianus II’s revolt certainly reveals that Tetricus’s nomination had been challenged. So option # 2)&nbsp; Tetricus. It&#039;s possible that he himself organized the Divo Victorino coinage in order to legitimate his power, as did Quintillus and Aurelianus for Claudius Gothicus a few months earlier at the end 270.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304121[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Possibility # 3: Victoria. She had played an important role after his son’s death, buying the support of the legions and choosing the governor of Gallia Aquitania, Tetricus, as his son’s successor. The coinage in the name of Divo Victorino may have been ordered by Victoria during that short period of time. The fact that the coins of Domitianus seem to have been struck during the same issue as the Divo Victorino coins points to that conclusion. But here are other questions we should ask: is it possible that the Divo Victorino coinage have been issued, neither by Victoria or Tetricus, but by the military forces installed at Cologne because of their uncertainty regarding Tetricus’s nomination? Alternatively, might Victoria have chosen to issue coins in Victorinus’s name because of this uncertainty among the military forces at Cologne?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The coinage</b></p><p>The coinage in the name of Divo Victorino was probably influenced by the very abundant coinage in the name of Divo Claudio issued by Aurelian in 270-1 AD in the name of Claudius II, in several mints of the Empire but mainly at Rome. Two reverse types were in use. The first one, PROVIDENTIA AVG, is inherited from Victorinus’s last issue, while the other depicts an eagle as on the coins of Divo Claudio. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304123[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one need an upgrade, but the last one available sold for 550 GBP... so I&#039;ll wait a bit...</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the engraver of Cologne seems to have adapted the reverse in setting the eagle on a globe and changing the legend from CONSECRATIO to CONSACRATIO, reflecting possibly a local pronunciation. This spelling is also found on coins of Divo Claudio minted at Siscia (where the reverse depicts an altar) and at Cyzicus, but it would be surprising that these coins have been the source of inspiration of these coins than the ones of Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>This last one is my favorite, having an error in the spelling on the obverse: DIVO VICTORINO PO (sic). I have been able to find 2 die-matches with my specimen, one sold in 1995 by Spink&#039;s and the other one (with the reverse of Providentia !) from a private collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304119[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304118[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1304120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Please show me a coin you couldn&#039;t resist, a die-match example or a DIVO example of any Emperor you want !</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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