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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4588369, member: 98035&quot;]Very well-written site!</p><p><br /></p><p>Barbarous radiates were one of the first areas of Roman collecting that really drew me in, and I still have almost every barbarous coin I&#039;ve ever purchased, probably about 100 in total. I did get burned out because it&#039;s not really possible to get from an &quot;accumulation&quot; to any sort of &quot;collection&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are some of my favorites:</p><p><br /></p><p>An unambiguous barbarous Gallienus, complete with his grape-cluster neckbeard and maybe a Salus reverse? Obverse is almost literate - CALINVS AVG, reverse is gibberish - just I&#039;s and C&#039;s</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136160[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A strange coin, perhaps imitating a Gallienus Zoo coin? No legends, just zig-zags</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136159[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A barbarous Claudius II lifetime issue with visible -DIVS in the obverse legend</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136157[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A barbarous Victorinus with full legends, but all the S&#039;s are sideways - C VICTORINVS AUC/ SALVS AVCCS, not sure what Salus is doing, though</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136163[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A highly degenerate left-facing bust (agreed, these are quite uncommon)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136161[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A fairly common error - A clearly Tetricus I bust with a Tetricus II reverse featuring priestly implements</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136162[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Tetricus I would almost pass as official, except that it&#039;s only 12mm!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136165[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This one however isn&#039;t fooling anyone</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136158[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A favorite of mine - I am convinced that this coin was made with an official (but worn) Tetricus II obverse die coupled with a home-made reverse die; perhaps the obverse die was looted from the mint as Aurelian brought Gaul back under his control? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136164[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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