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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2429372, member: 57495&quot;]Not a Victorinus, but I&#039;ll put this one here because it&#039;s an interesting Divus type, and it just arrived yesterday <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]504593[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>DIVUS ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>Died 161 AD</p><p>AR Antoninianus</p><p>4.86g, 22.6mm</p><p>Rome mint, AD 250-251, commemorative issue struck under Trajan Decius</p><p>RIC IV 90 (Trajan Decius)</p><p>O: DIVO PIO, radiate head right.</p><p>R: CONSECRATIO, lighted altar.</p><p><br /></p><p>We get so used to seeing ruler portraits issued in their lifetime (or in the couple of years following their deaths) that you know a series is going to be interesting just because it shows you portraits engraved in some cases over two hundred years after the emperor&#039;s reign.&nbsp; My A-Pi&#039;s portrait has a similar enough style, perhaps just different enough to be distinct, from those on coins struck during his reign.&nbsp; For me, it&#039;s interesting enough to me just to have his face on a denomination that didn&#039;t even exist in his time.&nbsp; Others in this series have ruler portraits that are stylistically pretty far out, and those would be the really cool ones to collect.&nbsp; I&#039;d actually like to get a full set of these, but most of the others are going to be harder to come by and pricier. </p><p><br /></p><p>One other interesting thing about my coin is its weight, which at 4.86g is much heavier than the average for this series.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen the theory that Decius, more than averagely intelligent for a short-lived 3rd century ruler, simply withdrew worn old denarii from circulation and restruck this series on them (&quot;hey guys, look, we just turned an old cruddy denarius into a brand new double denarius!&quot;), which would account for why many only weigh in the mid 2g and low 3g range.&nbsp; Mine, quite a bit heavier than Decius&#039;s average antoninianus, might have been struck over an antoninianus from a earlier reign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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