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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2564204, member: 44316"]Doug is right about most people not caring much about Gratian, but my want list included every AE type for Gratian. Here is a list of his type set:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/GTypes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/GTypes.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/GTypes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One of these days I will get around to illustrating it on that page, rather than just giving links to images. I have illustrated the type set for Valentinian here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ValentinianI.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ValentinianI.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ValentinianI.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and will (eventually) do the same for each of the emperors on my site "Guide to Late Roman AE Coin Types, AD 364 - 450":</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This type of Gratian is particularly interesting:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]553228[/ATTACH]</p><p>His are the only types in the Roman series with the title "AVGG AVG." It was struck only for Gratian and only at Arelate (Arles).</p><p>19 mm. 6:00. 1.76 grams.</p><p>RIC IX Arelate 15, AD 367-375.</p><p><br /></p><p>AVGG AVG may abbreviate "avgustorum avgustvs" (RIC page 36).</p><p><br /></p><p>Gratian was the young son of Valentinian I. Valentinian, realizing that the soldiers in Gaul might prefer to choose their own candidate, made the right of Gratian to succeed clear by noting he would be an <b>Augustus in a line of Augusti</b>. RIC (page 57) thinks this obverse legend was discontinued when Valentinian died (17 Nov., 375). The legend DN GRATIANVS PF AVG replaced it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2564204, member: 44316"]Doug is right about most people not caring much about Gratian, but my want list included every AE type for Gratian. Here is a list of his type set: [url]http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/GTypes.html[/url] One of these days I will get around to illustrating it on that page, rather than just giving links to images. I have illustrated the type set for Valentinian here: [url]http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/ValentinianI.html[/url] and will (eventually) do the same for each of the emperors on my site "Guide to Late Roman AE Coin Types, AD 364 - 450": [url]http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/[/url] This type of Gratian is particularly interesting: [ATTACH=full]553228[/ATTACH] His are the only types in the Roman series with the title "AVGG AVG." It was struck only for Gratian and only at Arelate (Arles). 19 mm. 6:00. 1.76 grams. RIC IX Arelate 15, AD 367-375. AVGG AVG may abbreviate "avgustorum avgustvs" (RIC page 36). Gratian was the young son of Valentinian I. Valentinian, realizing that the soldiers in Gaul might prefer to choose their own candidate, made the right of Gratian to succeed clear by noting he would be an [B]Augustus in a line of Augusti[/B]. RIC (page 57) thinks this obverse legend was discontinued when Valentinian died (17 Nov., 375). The legend DN GRATIANVS PF AVG replaced it.[/QUOTE]
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