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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8321861, member: 110350&quot;]So many wonderful coins posted in this thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my only Constantine I from the Trier mint, found by metal detection in England:</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I, Billon reduced Centenionalis, Trier Mint 330-331 AD. Obv. VRBS ROMA, helmeted bust of Roma left/ Rev. She-wolf stg. left suckling twins (Romulus &amp; Remus), 2 stars above; TRP• [Trier, First officina] in exergue. RIC VII 529, Sear RCV IV 16487. 17 mm., 2.4 g. (<i>Found by metal detecting in Wiltshire, England, 2014</i>).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474211[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my other coins from (or possibly from) the Trier mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Trier Mint, 262 AD. Obv. Radiate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG / Rv. Mars, naked, standing right holding spear &amp; leaning on shield, VIRTVS AVG.&nbsp; RIC V-1 93, RSC IV 419, Sear RCV III 10998. 23 mm., 3.6 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474213[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Trier [Mairat] or Cologne Mint, 265-268 AD. [Mairat pp. 61, 64: 266-267 AD.] Obv. Radiate &amp; draped bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG / Rev. Serapis, crowned and draped, standing left, raising right hand and holding transverse sceptre in left hand; in background, prow of galley right, SERAPI COMITI AVG. RIC V-1 329, RSC IV 358, Sear RCV III 10992 (ill. p. 364), Mairat 362 (pp. 532-533) &amp; Pls 143-144 [Jerome Mairat, <i>The Coinage of the Gallic Empire</i> (Trinity, Oxford, 2014), available at <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" rel="nofollow">https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis</a>]. 21 mm., 3.80 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474212[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian, billon abdication Follis, 305-307 AD, Trier Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right in imperial mantle (trabea), holding olive branch and mappa, D N DIOCLETIANO BAEATISSIMO SEN AVG / Rev. Providentia standing right, holding [scroll or short scepter?] and drapery with left hand and extending right hand to Quies standing left, holding branch downward with right hand and leaning on scepter with left hand, S - F across fields, PROVIDENTIA DEORVM QVIES AVGG; PTR in exergue. 27x28 mm., 9.6 gm. RIC VI Trier 673a (p. 208), Sear RCV IV 12927.&nbsp; [<i>Die match to example sold by Numismatik Naumann in 2015; see </i><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893" rel="nofollow"><i>https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=2337893</i></a>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474214[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius II Caesar (son of Constantine I), silvered billon centenionalis, Trier Mint (2nd Officina) 326 AD. Obv. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C / Rev. Campgate with six rows, two turrets, no door, and star between turrets; PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS. In exergue: STR followed by pellet in crescent. RIC VII Trier 480S (p. 209), Sear RCV V 17618. 19 mm., 3.09 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474215[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Gratian, AR Siliqua, 368-375 AD, Trier Mint. Obv. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG / Rev. Helmeted Roma seated left on throne, holding Victory on globe in right hand, and scepter in left hand, VRBS ROMA; in exergue, TRPS• (Trier Mint; PS = <i>pvsvlatvm</i>, struck from refined silver). RIC IX 27f(1) at p. 19, RSC V 86a, Sear RCV V 19964. 17 mm., 2.0 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474216[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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