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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2394783, member: 19463&quot;]Certainly a nice coin, yours is not spectacular judging from the very washed out photo making it hard to tell if that is texture in the reverse surfaces. It is nicer than mine of the type and the easiest Rome mint Philip II to find in nice shape.&nbsp; Below is an Eastern mint antoninianus of Philip II as Augustus.&nbsp; I doubt you will be in the market for one like this for a long time since there are a thousand other non-gold coins I&#039;d recommend befor a second Philip II.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]492424[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As pointed out above, the radiate crown means &#039;double&#039;.&nbsp; There is a very rare Roman double aureus called Binio which I&#039;m surprised you have not sought out for your gold collection.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43829" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43829" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=43829</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More common is the use of the crown for a double as or Dupondius which you might look at as half a sestertius as well.&nbsp; There is also a much less common radiate crowned double sestertius only issued by a couple rulers.&nbsp; My Trajan Decius is a junker but you could get a nice one for what you pay for aurei. Most people who collect aurei and move to another denomination would probably go into sestertii rather than antoniniani.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]492427[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The use of the radiate crown became uncommon in the Late Roman period and is ignored by most collectors when naming coins because we are simply ignorant of all of the details of denominations after c.300 AD.&nbsp; Below is a late use on a coin of Licinius I rated at 12 1/2 denarii of account but for which I have no name better than AE3 based on its diameter.&nbsp; It dates to a time that Licinius was playing with the values of the coins and may have had a meaning but not the same meaning as the coins of a generation earlier. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]492434[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know whether the ruler ever wore such a crown but I doubt it.&nbsp; Most interesting to me are the ones where the emperor wore a helmet with the crown over top of it.&nbsp; I really doubt that this was common attire in any event. Probus: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]492437[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I end here with evidence that there are wondrous radiate binios like this Tacitus waiting for you if you decide to collect gold instead of silver. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=584293" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=584293" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=584293</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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