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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3116599, member: 75937&quot;]Despite the differences in metallurgy, these Severan antoniniani ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792072[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]792074[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... are fundamentally the same coin as these antoniniani of Gallienus, fifty years later ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792075[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]792077[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... and this antoninianus of Postumus, of the breakaway Gallic Empire:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792093[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They are the same denomination (albeit with different &quot;purchasing power,&quot; just as a Washington quarter could buy a lot more in 1932 than in 2018). The emperor wears a radiate crown; the empress rests on a crescent. The reverse depicts a pagan deity or personification. The coins are roughly the same size. When first struck, they were lustrous and silver-colored.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, a Roman citizen of the year 220 would recognize the Gallienus and Postumus coins of 265 and know what they were &quot;supposed to be,&quot; just as a US citizen of 1950 would recognize one of the state quarters of 2000.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t say the same of coins minted in 320 and beyond; a citizen of 260 would not know what to make of this AE 3 &quot;centenionalis&quot; of Crispus and might think it was a denarius of some sort ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792100[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>... and would have no idea whatsoever to make of this 9 mm bronze thing of Theodosius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]792104[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For this reason, I don&#039;t consider Valerian and Gallienus to be part of the &quot;late Roman bronze&quot; category.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m with [USER=42634]@chrsmat71[/USER] -- the term LRBC to me connotes coins of the Constantinian era and beyond we used to call AE 2, AE 3, or AE 4 for lack of a better term, with all of the reverse types he mentions above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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