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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3739108, member: 72790&quot;]That&#039;s a nice looking coin. The emperor Aurelian, actually one of Rome&#039;s better rulers (too bad he did not reign longer) was one of those Balkan emperors who saved Rome from what looked like certain ruin when the bottom fell out circa 260 AD. One of his achievements was to restore some credibility to the coinage and your coin shows the improvements, much better fabric, finer portraiture, higher percentage of silver, from virtually the slimmest of silvering (or none) the double denarius (or antoninianus) was improved by Aurelian to some 5% silver and a just better looking coin. His improvements lasted into the reign of Diocletian before he, too, tried a further improvement, larger well silvered but, in my opinion, the portraiture is terrible. Because Aurelian started the improvement of coinage, his coins and those just after him sometimes merit his name for the type. Nice acquisition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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