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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 1212986, member: 31620&quot;]The claw like raised hand seems to be the norm on all the types that I have seen. </p><p>Your Serdica coin is superb. I have only seen one other example of this type from that mint.</p><p>I am not aware of any analysis of the busts and workshops for these types. I will dig through my references to see if I can find anything.</p><p>The ADVENTVS PROBI type is quite rare for Lugdunum despite being common for most other mints. Ticinum examples are even scarcer.</p><p>This type has historical significance too as it was minted to commemorate a visit by Probus to the city in question.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to share another of my Lugdunum examples of this type with some text that I posted on another board some time back:-</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This coin is rated Common by RIC but the market would seem to indicate otherwise. I have not seem many examples of this type come onto the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin comes from a short issue made to commemorate Probus travelling through Lugdunum at the start of the summer of A.D. 277 travelling with his army from Asia to battle in the Rhine. The next, and to me most fascinating, emission, dating End A.D. 277 to Early A.D. 278 was produced to celebrate the return of Probus after his victories in Gaul and contains a very wide range of bust types that had been notably missing from the output of Lugdunum up to that point. (dating and historical information from Bastien).</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite suffering from a partial flat strike leading to flatness at 6 o&#039;clock on the obverse and 12 o&#039;clock on the reverse and the remaining encrustations it is still a quite desirable example of a relatively scarce coin of historic interest to the Probus enthusiast.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]128365.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Lugdunum ADVENTVS coin above comes from the issue produced upon his victorious return through Lugdunum and was celebrated by the introduction of a variety of bust types rather then the plain cuirassed bust which has been the norm at Lugdunum up until this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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