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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2695266, member: 19463"]VICTORIA AET (Eternal Victory) note the wings on Victory</p><p>[ATTACH=full]605292[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>HILARITAS AVGG? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]605293[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Your reverse is PAX AVG like the one Smojo showed but his has the longer form obverse legend including PIAV after C and before VICTORINVS that yours does not. Unless I am very confused the two other reverses you showed were not coins of Victorinus so you should not have been considering them. This makes another point. Whenever you are showing something online in a venue like Coin Talk, help those who might want to help you by giving all the information. That means showing both sides of a coin if you show one side. It happens that Pax was a common type used by several emperors but your reverse has the V * in the field which would suggest Victorinus to those who study these. The Hilaritas appears to have AVGG at the end and the double G is used when there were two rulers. In this case, that means Tetricus the father and son since Victorinus ruled alone. The other coin shown with Victory is a common type for Gallienus. Where did you get these photos? How did they come into play when trying to find that Pax? </p><p><br /></p><p>This may all seem too deep to take in all at once. It is! That is why we are here to help. The regular posters on this site have over 200 years experience with these coins. The chances of all of us working together being able to fingure out a coin is pretty good (just as is the chance that we will occasionally disagree with each other). Welcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2695266, member: 19463"]VICTORIA AET (Eternal Victory) note the wings on Victory [ATTACH=full]605292[/ATTACH] HILARITAS AVGG? [ATTACH=full]605293[/ATTACH] Your reverse is PAX AVG like the one Smojo showed but his has the longer form obverse legend including PIAV after C and before VICTORINVS that yours does not. Unless I am very confused the two other reverses you showed were not coins of Victorinus so you should not have been considering them. This makes another point. Whenever you are showing something online in a venue like Coin Talk, help those who might want to help you by giving all the information. That means showing both sides of a coin if you show one side. It happens that Pax was a common type used by several emperors but your reverse has the V * in the field which would suggest Victorinus to those who study these. The Hilaritas appears to have AVGG at the end and the double G is used when there were two rulers. In this case, that means Tetricus the father and son since Victorinus ruled alone. The other coin shown with Victory is a common type for Gallienus. Where did you get these photos? How did they come into play when trying to find that Pax? This may all seem too deep to take in all at once. It is! That is why we are here to help. The regular posters on this site have over 200 years experience with these coins. The chances of all of us working together being able to fingure out a coin is pretty good (just as is the chance that we will occasionally disagree with each other). Welcome.[/QUOTE]
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