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<p>[QUOTE="philologus_1, post: 7498355, member: 92212"]I'm late to Gratian's birthday party, but will add another GLORIA ROMANORVM portraying our birthday boy standing on a galley, <u>but</u> with Cross rather than the more commonly seen Christogram.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1295940[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gratian. A.D.367-383. Æ 2. Antioch Mint.</p><p>Obv.: D N GRATIANVS P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, helmeted, draped, cuirassed bust r., holding spear & shield.</p><p>Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM; Emperor standing left on galley, head facing right, hand raised, galley steered by Victory; wreath in left field, Cross in upper right field; ANTB in exergue.</p><p>Diam.: 22 mm. </p><p>Weight: 4.57 grams.</p><p>Attrib.: Drösser pg. 43, fig. 38 [this coin]. RIC IX Antioch 40(a)/3. LRBC 2712. </p><p><i>Former collection of Wolfgang Drösser.</i></p><p>W. Drösser, “Christus auf Münzen” – in Zeichen, Worten und Bildern: Rom, Byzanz und Axum” (Brühl, Duitsland, 2011).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="philologus_1, post: 7498355, member: 92212"]I'm late to Gratian's birthday party, but will add another GLORIA ROMANORVM portraying our birthday boy standing on a galley, [U]but[/U] with Cross rather than the more commonly seen Christogram. [ATTACH=full]1295940[/ATTACH] Gratian. A.D.367-383. Æ 2. Antioch Mint. Obv.: D N GRATIANVS P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, helmeted, draped, cuirassed bust r., holding spear & shield. Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM; Emperor standing left on galley, head facing right, hand raised, galley steered by Victory; wreath in left field, Cross in upper right field; ANTB in exergue. Diam.: 22 mm. Weight: 4.57 grams. Attrib.: Drösser pg. 43, fig. 38 [this coin]. RIC IX Antioch 40(a)/3. LRBC 2712. [I]Former collection of Wolfgang Drösser.[/I] W. Drösser, “Christus auf Münzen” – in Zeichen, Worten und Bildern: Rom, Byzanz und Axum” (Brühl, Duitsland, 2011).[/QUOTE]
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