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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5698041, member: 75937&quot;]Cool coin, [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER]! That is indeed an interesting and fine-style bust on that one!</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have one Mars Propugnator (Mars the defender) coin, this one of Trebonianus Gallus from Antioch. It has the same (standard) iconography:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-martem-propvgnatorem-antioch-antoninianus-jpg.1002420/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.58 g, 20.7 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 251.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM, Mars advancing right, carrying transverse spear and shield.</p><p>Refs: RIC 84; RSC 70; RCV 9637; Hunter 59.</p><p>Notes: The reverse inscription is unusually in the accusative case, and probably denotes the &quot;motion toward&quot; aspect of the case: &quot;to Mars the defender.&quot; Unlike other issues of the Antioch mint, no officina marks are known on examples of this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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