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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2783503, member: 80804&quot;]Quinarii continued to primarily, pretty much exclusively, feature Victory on their reverses through the lifetime of the quinarius as a circulating coin - 2nd-early 3rd century before Gresham ruled them out.</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/album91/Trajan_Quinarius.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan, AR Quinarius. 15mm, 1.74g, 7h. Mint of Rome, 112-14 AD.</p><p>Obv: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS VI P P</p><p>laureate bust right, drapery on far shoulder</p><p>Rx: SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI</p><p>Victory walking right holding wreath and palm-branch</p><p>RIC II 281, RSC 433, Cf. SRCV 3175.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the hemidrachms of Caesarea (Cappadocia) had the same Victory right holding wreath and palm reverse device.</p><p>Hadrian&#039;s are easier found than his Imperial quinarii:</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/Roman-Imperial/Cappadocia_Caesarea_Hadrian_AR_Hemidrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cappadocia, Caesarea, Hadrian, 117-138 AD.</p><p>AR Hemidrachm; dated 121/2 AD. 14.5mm, 1.62g, 1h.</p><p>Obv: AYTO KAIC TΡAI AΔPIANOC CЄBACT</p><p>laureate draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian right</p><p>Rx:date, ЄT Є (= yr 5 = 121/2 AD.) in field to right of Nike advancing right holding garlanded wreath and palm-branch</p><p>Cf. SGICV 1232[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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