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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 3122554, member: 56653&quot;]The style of the lettering and portraiture and the type are no doubt Cyzicus, from cca. 271-early 272. There seems to be a continuation in types which originated at Smyrna in 268 under Gallienus (the beginning of the SPQR series) and were continued at Cyzicus in early to mid 269 under Claudius II and then on under Quintillus and Aurelian. This trophy and captives type is one of them and is specifically a Cyzicus type by Aurelian&#039;s reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also something else: in 269, together with the SPQR series and the blank exergue series of Cyzicus ants, the mint also struck a rarer series, the M - C (Moneta Cyzicus) series. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/905" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/905" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a specimen of that series. Notice the C from M - C on the reverse and how it looks like the upper half of an S. Were the RIC Temp coin to be in a similar condition to the coin presented in OP, how likely would a collector tend to see an S instead of a C there? </p><p><br /></p><p>I think quite likely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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