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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3119762, member: 31620&quot;]I hadn&#039;t seen an Aurelian posted for awhile and then see a few Aurelian threads posted between ordering this coin and it arriving yesterday,</p><p><br /></p><p>I have kept the postie busy this week. Lots of deliveries with coins that have taken weeks to arrive. This one was amongst them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian produced some Aesculapius reverse types at Serdica and we can be sure of the mint attribution because some of them occur with SERD in exe. The majority of the variations occur with legend CONSERVATOR AVG but there are a couple of variations with the legend simply as CONSERVATORI as in my example below. I am sure that the SERD examples ask a premium because they spell out the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian Antoninianus</p><p>Obv:- IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev:- CONSERVATORI, Aesculapius standing right, head left, with right hand leaning on caduceus which rests on the ground.</p><p>Minted in Serdica, //S in exe. Issue 2. Dated to Autumn to End A.D. 271</p><p>References:- RIC - (This legend not listed in RIC). RIC temp #2578 (one example cited, solf by cgb.fr, MONNAIES 16, Lot 657, 31st December 2002)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2578" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2578" rel="nofollow">http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2578</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My example is nearly fully silvered on the obverse and has lost some silvering on the reverse. A somewhat flat strike to the reverse which seems fairly typical of the issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]793595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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