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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3858863, member: 82549"]Here's mine:</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/BreakawayEmpires/Valabathus.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Billon Antoninianus</p><p>Antioch mint</p><p>Obv: VABALATHVS VCRIMDR - Laurate bust of Valabathus, draped</p><p>Rev: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG - Radiate bust of Aurelian, cuirassed</p><p>A in exergue</p><p>RIC (Aurelian) 381</p><p>20mm, 3.9g.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will notice that I, too, list the side with Vabalathus as the obverse, mainly because of the officina mark under Aurelian as Roman Collector pointed out in the OP. Yet this is controversial. I have heard some argue that Aurelian would never had put someone else's image on the obverse of one of his coins, which would suggest that Vabalathus was the superior of the two. I have also heard the claim that there are other ancient coins with the mint and/or officina marks on the obverse. (I have a denarius of Vespasian that has this arrangement.) But I never seen or heard of an antoninianus with an obverse officina mark. So I'm sticking with Vabalathus on the obverse even though others may disagree. Do we want to go there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3858863, member: 82549"]Here's mine: [IMG]http://feltemp.com/Images/BreakawayEmpires/Valabathus.JPG[/IMG] Billon Antoninianus Antioch mint Obv: VABALATHVS VCRIMDR - Laurate bust of Valabathus, draped Rev: IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG - Radiate bust of Aurelian, cuirassed A in exergue RIC (Aurelian) 381 20mm, 3.9g. You will notice that I, too, list the side with Vabalathus as the obverse, mainly because of the officina mark under Aurelian as Roman Collector pointed out in the OP. Yet this is controversial. I have heard some argue that Aurelian would never had put someone else's image on the obverse of one of his coins, which would suggest that Vabalathus was the superior of the two. I have also heard the claim that there are other ancient coins with the mint and/or officina marks on the obverse. (I have a denarius of Vespasian that has this arrangement.) But I never seen or heard of an antoninianus with an obverse officina mark. So I'm sticking with Vabalathus on the obverse even though others may disagree. Do we want to go there?[/QUOTE]
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