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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2428861, member: 19463&quot;]I always wanted one of these and listening to the news every night makes it hard to avoid famous people being infamous which reminded me I always wanted one of these. </p><p><br /></p><p>Victorinus ruled the Gallic Empire of Postumus after clearing up the competition from Marius and before Tetricus after history decided that Domitian II was not a long term good idea.&nbsp; Among the things he is most noted for is his seduction of the wife of one of his officers who killed the emperor.&nbsp; Victorinus&#039; mother was able to buy the support of the army who apparently liked him (perhaps only the single ones???) and arranged the elevation of Tetricus I.&nbsp; The coin shown here honors the deification of Victorinus either by his mother&#039;s money or by Tetricus making him the only Gallic Emperor so honored.&nbsp; Catalogs list it as an issue of Tetricus but the constant need for new coin production&nbsp; at that time suggests to me that the coin may have been produced in the couple days while the negotiations were in progress.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]504335[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins come with (three???) &#039;normal&#039; reverses and a CONSECRATIO eagle type.&nbsp; I suspect the normal types might be found as die matches for normal coins since the rush to make coins and the fact that obverse dies tend to list longer (even in this period???) might make them desirable.&nbsp; They could just have been first since all die cutting resources might have been put to work on obverses.&nbsp; Obviously I would love to find a die match.&nbsp;&nbsp; In any event, DIVO VICTORINO PIO coins are considerably more scarce than other coins of the ruler. </p><p><br /></p><p>As usual for coins of this period, finding well struck and full legend ones is not as easy as we might like.&nbsp; This one was ex CNG (I paid more) and realizations show the market really favors coins with a more clear DIVO and cares little for the PIO.&nbsp; CNG did not comment on the lump on the reverse at lower right by the V of AVG but I would like to know if it is a die failure or evidence of an overstrike.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess now I need a normal Providentia and an eagle type Divo.&nbsp; Collecting these things gets addictive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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