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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4336548, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coins, everybody. </p><p><br /></p><p>I got a couple of Volusians from Samaria - these were difficult to attribute because the titles were the similar to those of Trebonianus Gallus (and I have no idea what I am doing with Provincials, so there&#039;s a lot of fumbling around - corrections always welcome):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099322[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Volusian&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 22</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Samaria, Neapolis </b></p><p>AVT KAI Γ [OVI TPEBOVOΛOV]CIAN Radiate, cuirassed bust right / ΦΛ NEACΠOΛEWC Eagle standing left, supporting Mt. Gerizim with temple, altar, stairway, colonnade below; star &amp; crescent left &amp; right above.</p><p>(11.65 grams / 22 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution / Die Match (?)</b></p><p>Gemini, LLC Auction VI Lot 742 appears to be a reverse die match: &quot;Harl, Museum Notes 29, 1984, pl. 14, 146 (same obv. die A33, new rev. die same type).</p><p>SNG ANS 1031 (same obverse die, misattributed to Treb. Gallus).</p><p>Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collect.&quot;</p><p>RPC 2161 uses this specimen for this type.&nbsp; <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/2161" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/2161" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/2161</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Volusian&nbsp; Æ 20</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Samaria, Neapolis </b></p><p>ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Γ ΟΥΙΒ ΤΡΙΒΟΥΟΛΟ[ΥϹΙΑΝΟϹ], radiate, cuirassed bust right / ΦΛ [NƐACΠ]OΛEWC, Mt. Gerizim with temple, altar, stairway, colonnade below.</p><p>RPC 2166; Harl 149; SNG 1041. </p><p>(6.85 grams / 20 x 18 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an Imperial antoninianus I got late last year:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099324[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Volusian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG Virtus standing, head left, holding shield and spear.</p><p>RIC 186; RSC 135; Sear 9778.</p><p>(3.65 grams / 20 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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