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Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4588370, member: 98035"]Additionally, I would also like to raise a few things that could be discussed, although there is admittedly very little scholarly coverage on them right now. - As posted in this thread, and in a few others, barbarous coins are mostly modeled on Imperial prototypes, but on rare occasions one can find one that are a totally original. Probably the coolest is the "stag-rider" that has been posted on here a few times previously, and I wish Doug could have gotten a picture of the Gladiator one he saw years ago. - Barbarous coins give coins that cannot be collected from imperial series, perhaps most notably is Tetricus II as Augustus, a title which he likely held for only a couple of weeks, if at all.[ATTACH=full]1136182[/ATTACH] - It would also be worth noting that the large number of Claudius II type imitations may be tied to the so-called "Mint Revolt" of 270/1 in which Felicissimus was put to death for stealing silver from the Rome mint, and the mint workers raised an army with those illicit proceeds to challenge Aurelian's authority. I've heard it claimed in several places that survivors of the mint revolt may have fled to the provices, only to set up shop there and continue minting Divus Claudius II antoninianii - indeed, the vast majority of them are far better made than the barbarous radiates of Tetricus and his son.[ATTACH=full]1136181[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]