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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7286220, member: 85693&quot;]Here&#039;s another impulse buy that arrived during the Coin Talk blackout.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was really hesitating over it - the photo wasn&#039;t very appetizing.&nbsp; But Trebonianus Gallus sestertiss don&#039;t come along every day, especially for this price, so my bottom-feeding instincts were aroused.&nbsp; The seller was unsure of the attribution and wrote:&nbsp; &quot;Ancient Roman Greek Coin Bronze Thick You Grade You Decide Constantine (?)&quot;.&nbsp; The starting bid was $24.98, which also added to the temptation; since no other bids came in, that&#039;s what I paid.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When it showed up I was very pleased with it - it looked much better in hand and I thought the &quot;needle-nosed&quot; portrait of TB was nicely rendered.&nbsp; It has a pleasant green patina, which is disturbed behind the bust, revealing the brassy color beneath (the seller&#039;s photos made this look much worse than it really is).&nbsp; Here it is: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1275858[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Trebonianus Gallus&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Sest.</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAES C VIBIVS TREBONIANVS GA[LLVS AVG], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / PIETAS AVGG, S-C, Pietas standing facing, altar to left.</p><p>RIC 117a.</p><p>(14.14 grams / 27 x 25 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>What puts this in the &quot;impulsive&quot; category, still, or perhaps &quot;obsessive&quot; is that I already had two of these.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So here they are, three PIETAS RIC 117a sestertii of Trebonianus Gallus.&nbsp; The one on the left is nicest.&nbsp; The one in the middle is on a very crowded flan, losing most of the legends, but still decent bust and goddess.&nbsp; The one on the right is the new one.&nbsp; If I get a few more I can start a die-link study (just kidding - I am way too lazy for that): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1275857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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