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Andres posted a chip, then stated NEXT AURELIANUS...

@+VGO.DVCKS was late, NOT an Aurelianus, and therefore a flagrant violation. This is not baseball.

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(I type too slow)

 

No, @DonnaML, @panzerman had already done one with an architectural motif, so it wan't about me. Not sure, in real time, exactly who Alegandron was responding to.

 

Oh, No, @Alegandron, I'm That Busted. Still learning this stuff. Apologies....no, Really.

 

@Broucheion, it's like, who Doesn't, just in this room? Cordial thanks to you and @Alegandron for your help with how this works, in something vaguely approaching real time.

 

...So, where are we now? What about @panzerman's suggestion, "Next topic: a "dated" coin struck before the Umayyad Caliphate circa 700AD."

 

Here is another ex. struck under HRE Franz II circa 1792

 

We are at the literal Restorer of the Roman world!
I will always mention this man in my list of top 5 Augustii


Next up: another massively underrated ruler

 

...Oh (moderate expletive), @Ryro, I'm hard pressed to even think of one. ...Well, okay, Gallienus, maybe, but other people here could do a Lot more, and probably better with that. (At least as long as they included his patronage of Plotinus. Near as a mid-3rd c. emperor was likely to get to the also, lamentably martial reign of Aurelius. ...Right, the Marcus kind.)

 

Honestly, at this point, dare I say it with all the Gallienus apologists out there? We don't know much about him from the historians, which sadly grew silent around this time other than that he left his own dad in the lurch to die an epic death (if believed), ruled for a long time (for the period) aaand the people HATED him!
LOVE the zoo. But personally don't count him as underrated from the historical record.

 

How dare you??

 

Trebonianus Gallus was underrated. Yes, his short reign was absorbed by war with both the Goths and Persians, and with the devastation caused by plague. Nonetheless, he appears to have been a just and humane ruler who treated Decius’ descendants with unprecedented consideration. His coinage displays a consistent appeal for peace and fairness. He was dealt a bad hand -- a two-front war and a pandemic -- and no ruler could have done a better job, I don't think.


Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.
Roman AR antoninianus, 3.58 g, 20.7 mm, 5 h.
Antioch, 3rd issue, AD 253-253.
Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.
Rev: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM, Mars advancing right, carrying transverse spear and shield.
Refs: RIC 84; RSC 70; RCV 9637; Hunter 59.

Next: Mars advancing right.

 

Aurelian Bil Aurelianus Serdica bv Bust right radiate draped and cuirassed. IMP C AVRELIANVS INVICTVS AVG, RV Female presenting wreath to emperor RIC 310 Estiot 1049 4.24 grms 22 mm Photo by W. Hansen Out of sequence sorry

 

@Terence Cheesman, ...Um, been there, done that. Solid example, anyway.

 

Sestertius of Vespasian with reverse Mars advancing to the right.

next Mars again...

 

@DonnaML, no comment. ...Nope, not from here.

 

Lucius Verus/ Armenicus with Mars reverse.
Next post a coin with a significant crack that it can break in any moment!

 

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