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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2729083, member: 44316&quot;]Late Roman AE is among the least expensive of all Roman coins and the number of types is limited so you can hope to fill out most of a set. Here is a checklist of all AE types for Gratian and examples of most:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/GratianSet.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/GratianSet.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/GratianSet.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>His most distinctive type is:</p><p>Emperor standing right, head left, holding labarum and left resting on shield </p><p>Unusual obverse legend: DN GRATIANVS AVG G AVG </p><p>367-375 </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; This type, neither common nor rare, was struck only for <b>Gratian</b> and only at <b>Arelate</b>. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]620096[/ATTACH] </p><p>19 mm. A bit larger than most AE3s of the time, which are usually 18 mm.</p><p>Obverse legend DN GRATIANVS AVGG AVG&quot; with &quot;AVG G AVG&quot; is interpreted, according to some 19th century scholars (and in Cohen), as &quot;Augusti Gener Augustus&quot; i.e. &quot;emperor, son-in-law of an emperor,&quot; because Gratian married Constantia, the posthumous daughter of the emperor Constantius II, the &quot;gener&quot; being Gratian.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC has it &quot;avgustorum avgustvs&quot; which might be translated &quot;Augustus in a line of Augusti&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>GLORIA NOVI SAECVLI&nbsp; &nbsp; TCON</p><p>Glory of the new age.&nbsp; Tertia (third officina) CONstantina, the name of Arles at the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Arelate is alone in giving him the reverse legend [on AE]... which presented him to the Gauls as the boy of the Messianic prophecy who was to bring back the Golden Age of peace and plenty.&quot;&nbsp; Pearce, <i>NC</i> 1948, p. 72.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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