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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1146588, member: 19463&quot;]Because we have a few new collectors that may read this thread, I thought I&#039;d show a few more coins I got at the Baltimore show including a bit of discussion on why I bought these coins from among the many offered. I am a major league cheapskate and look for interesting coins among the junk. Certainly there were thousands of much nicer coins at the show but most of them were priced at ten to a hundred times these and most of them did not sell (certainly not to me). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll start with a bronze antoninianus of Gallienus which shows no sign of silver so should be from late in the reign. The reverse is Laetitia but the legend is missing on the right so I am not absolutely certain what it read. Part of the appeal of this coin is the &#039;different&#039; style making me think it might be one of the branch mints I did not have (and do not fully understand). It has a well struck portrait and reverse figure and was $12 (plus, as with all here, its share of the $50 I paid for the bus to the show). I figured there was some education to be had and I wanted to track the mint down. I now suspect the coin is a relatively normal looking example of what is called a Barbarous Radiate. The best of these are good size and not terribly bad style so I will ID this as one until I find a match of the style cataloged to the regular mints. Is it worth $12? Maybe, but I enjoy the hunt for information on the &#039;slightly odd&#039; coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH]118183.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Next is a coin of Gallienus&#039; wife Salonina.&nbsp; At first glance it is not much of a coin with some missing legend and a considerable flan crack but it has a particularly good strike of the reverse figure and is a type that often seems to come with less than great workmanship that is considered &#039;special&#039; to some people.&nbsp; The reverse legend reads AVG IN PACE or Empress in Peace.&nbsp; It is the only use of this reverse in the entire Roman series and has been linked to rumors that Salonina was a Christian.&nbsp; You can research that question online if you wish.&nbsp; I tend not to accept the Christian story but enough people do that the coin should bring more than the $10 I paid.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]118186.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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