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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2240011, member: 44132&quot;]<font size="4">Florian was reportedly a maternal half-brother to the Emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus. Appointed Praetorian Prefect in Tacitus&#039;s army in his campaign against the Goths, he was chosen by the army in the West to succeed Tacitus in 276, without the Roman Senate consensus. However he minted coins bearing the &quot;SC&quot; legend, thus showing some bonds to the Senate.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Florian was fighting the Heruli when the army in the East elected Probus. Florian had the support of Italia, Gaul, Hispania, Britain, Africa, and Mauretania. The two rival emperors met in battle in Cilicia; Florianus had the larger army, but Probus was a more experienced general and avoided a direct clash. Florian&#039;s western army was not accustomed to the hot, dry eastern climate, and Probus likely secured a small victory. Florian was assassinated by his own troops near Tarsus once their confidence was lost. He died in September 276, having been emperor for only eighty-eight days.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">I bought this coin from another CT member a while back.&nbsp; What drew me to it was the portrait.&nbsp; It reminds me of the portraits of Carausius, the rebel emperor of Britian and Gaul. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]441650[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4">FLORIANUS</font></p><p><font size="4">Silvered Antoninianus</font></p><p><font size="4">OBVERSE:&nbsp; IMP FLORIANVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum bust r</font></p><p><font size="4">REVERSE: CONCORDIA MILITVM; Victory stg. r., holding wreath in r. hand and palm against l. shoulder, facing Emperor in military dress stg. l., r. hand outstretched and holding long sceptre in l. hand Q in ex.</font></p><p><font size="4">Struck at 4th officina, Cyzicus mint, July-August 276AD.</font></p><p><font size="4">4.4g, 20mm</font></p><p><font size="4">RIC V-1 116, RIC Online #4533</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Side note:</font></p><p><font size="4">A family of the Brandenburg nobility called von Blumenthal claimed descent from Florianus in a fanciful legend which says that after his death his sons fled over the Alps and introduced viticulture to the north Germans.</font></p><p><font size="4"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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