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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3324961, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coin, Roman Collector!&nbsp; I&#039;m afraid I cannot shed any light on this situation except to share a similar puzzling example I bought last summer.&nbsp; This is an antoninianus of Salonina with a PVDICITIA AVGG reverse.&nbsp; RIC 65 is for AVG only.&nbsp; When I came to research it, I found that it even alarmed Göbl - at least according to the Gallienus.net site, which said this:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The (reverse legend) should be PVDICITIA AVG. Göbl lists error coins with an ! in the table listing, which is why it has a regular Göbl number.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://gallienus.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallienus.net/" rel="nofollow">http://gallienus.net/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t sure if this meant Göbl considered it an error or not (I do not have the original source).&nbsp; Most RIC 65 examples I could find online were just AVG, not AVGG (there was one on FORVM with AVGG but the link&#039;s not working - it didn&#039;t really provide any information beyond the photo anyway). </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course many Gallienus/Valerian issues had AVGG for a while, when they were both co-rulers, but the empress Salonina was usually left out of this, I believe.&nbsp; So this could just be a mint error. </p><p><br /></p><p>My photo is too bright - it actually looks like silver in hand (debased, of course, but still silvery).&nbsp; Finally I should mention this was one of my best buys of 2018 - I got it on eBay for $0.01.&nbsp; Hard to beat that price!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]881171[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salonina&nbsp; Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(wife of Gallienus)</b></p><p><b>(c. 253-260 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Asian Mint (or Antioch Göbl)</b></p><p>SALONINA AVG, diademed, draped bust right on crescent / PVDICITIA AVGG, Pudicitia standing left, right hand raised to veil, left holding scepter.</p><p>RIC 65 error; Göbl 1594c (!)</p><p>(3.06 grams / 22 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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