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<p>[QUOTE="expat, post: 25450377, member: 111067"]Lovely collections of usurpers shown above. I have only been collecting ancients a little over two years. Like you [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] the information available today dwarfs the content of school curriculums. It is such a joy to research each and every Emperor, Empress, God or deity. The reasons behind the minting of certain reverses, being either true events or mythological.</p><p>Here is a usurper</p><p>Postumus AR Antoninianus. Trier. 264-265 CE</p><p>IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MONETA AVG, Moneta standing left with scales in right hand and holding cornucopiae and raising hem of skirt with left. RIC 75. RSC 199, Sear 10962. (Note the curly hair above the brow on the obverse.</p><p>This is one of the main characteristics which distinguishes this coin from RIC 315 from Cologne, on which the hair is in more or less straight lines.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1629005[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="expat, post: 25450377, member: 111067"]Lovely collections of usurpers shown above. I have only been collecting ancients a little over two years. Like you [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] the information available today dwarfs the content of school curriculums. It is such a joy to research each and every Emperor, Empress, God or deity. The reasons behind the minting of certain reverses, being either true events or mythological. Here is a usurper Postumus AR Antoninianus. Trier. 264-265 CE IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MONETA AVG, Moneta standing left with scales in right hand and holding cornucopiae and raising hem of skirt with left. RIC 75. RSC 199, Sear 10962. (Note the curly hair above the brow on the obverse. This is one of the main characteristics which distinguishes this coin from RIC 315 from Cologne, on which the hair is in more or less straight lines.) [ATTACH=full]1629005[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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