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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1816095, member: 42773&quot;]A small pick-up that RIC considers scarce. I realize that rarity ratings in RIC only refer to the coins sampled by the authors, but a quick perusal of the market suggests that it may indeed be so. This reverse type (Concordia holding two standards) appears on quite a few antoniniani of Severina, but only on a few of Aurelian, and I did not come across another with the officina mark S. RIC catalogs this coin in the first, pre-reform period, of which it says...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It would appear that my piece was minted toward the end of Period 1, a foreshadowing of the reform coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian</p><p>AE Antoninianus, 20mm, 3.5g, Siscia mint</p><p>Obv.: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG; radiate and draped bust right</p><p>Rev.: CONCORDIA MILI; Concordia standing half left, holding two standards / S</p><p>Reference: RIC V(a) Aurelian 193 (p. 286)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/i6e9mwecx/aurelian3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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