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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8268141, member: 98035&quot;]Nice coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], one small correction - your LAETITIA is actually a mule of a DIVO CLAVDIO obverse X Quintillus or Aurelian reverse. Much more common from the Rome mint than any other mint or time period, which indicates strongly that it could have been one of the coins stemming from the criminal mismanagement of Felicissimus, the mint director later put to death for his negligence and dishonesty. Whether they were the result of lackluster quality control or moonlighting employees using any available dies to strike pilfered metal is a matter of debate.</p><p><br /></p><p>My example, DIVO CLAVDIO X PAX AVGVSTI[ATTACH=full]1459030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And I have quite a few Claudius IIs, but some of my favorites</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria - my only provincial of his</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459022[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lifetime</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459028[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1459023[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1459025[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459026[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Posthumous - this is the only type that uses GOTHICO in his obverse titulature</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459031[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Barbarous - His barbarous coinage is almost always literate and usually head and shoulders above the Tetricus types, which perhaps lends some credence to the theory that after the Mint Revolt in 270, some escaped employees set up shop and continued minting illicit Claudius II types, just without access to the chief engravers who made the portraits.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459021[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And finally - a posthumous from a good 40 years later by his purported great-nephew, Constantine</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459029[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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