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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8288964, member: 85693"]Verrry interesting post, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] The use of Saturn on later Imperial coins has puzzled me some - such a gloomy god when the message was usually more upbeat. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus's father Valerian also issued the type as an Imperial issue. Here is mine with efforts at attribution below. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464917[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Valerian I Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(254-255 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Viminacium or Antioch Mint</b></p><p>IMP [C P LIC] VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [AE]TERNITATI AVG[G], Saturn veiled, draped, standing right, holding scythe</p><p>RIC 210; Göbl 1559a.</p><p>(3.63 grams / 21 mm)</p><p>eBay Mar. 2021 </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Attribution Notes:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 210: Saturn holding scythe; bust draped only, but this one is cuirassed, as are others online.</p><p>RIC: Viminacium Mint; Göbl Antioch Mint</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 67 (Rome): Saturn holding sceptre; obverse bust is cuirassed I could find no correctly-described examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8288964, member: 85693"]Verrry interesting post, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER] The use of Saturn on later Imperial coins has puzzled me some - such a gloomy god when the message was usually more upbeat. Gallienus's father Valerian also issued the type as an Imperial issue. Here is mine with efforts at attribution below. [ATTACH=full]1464917[/ATTACH] [B]Valerian I Antoninianus (254-255 A.D.) Viminacium or Antioch Mint[/B] IMP [C P LIC] VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / [AE]TERNITATI AVG[G], Saturn veiled, draped, standing right, holding scythe RIC 210; Göbl 1559a. (3.63 grams / 21 mm) eBay Mar. 2021 [B] Attribution Notes:[/B] RIC 210: Saturn holding scythe; bust draped only, but this one is cuirassed, as are others online. RIC: Viminacium Mint; Göbl Antioch Mint RIC 67 (Rome): Saturn holding sceptre; obverse bust is cuirassed I could find no correctly-described examples.[/QUOTE]
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