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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 2203472, member: 56653&quot;]This one, although a bit later, looks like it was struck using a die carved by the same celator or at least one of earlier Smyrna tradition like the one in the OP :</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>AURELIAN AE21mm 3.68g billon Antoninian pre-reform (aVF, flat strike areas, light-brown chocolaty patina)</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p>AV: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG; radiate cuirassed bust r.</p><p><br /></p><p>REV: FIDES MILITVM; Emperor in military dress stg. r., holding short sceptre in l. hand, receiving a globe from Jupiter stg. l., holding long sceptre in l. hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>EXE: C * P, Cyzicus mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>REF: RIC V-1 344, 272AD. RIC considers this issue C (common).</p><p><br /></p><p>The adnotated RIC V Online records <b>11 specimens</b> in the following distribution: <b>4 in La Venera Hoard</b> (which would make it a scarce issue), <b>2 in Vienna, and 1 in each London, Budapest, Munich, Oxford and Paris,</b> so it seems that it is a quite scarce issue - a pre-reform antoninian 1st phase of the 6th issue of Cyzicus 1st officina minted in summer-autumn 272AD, <a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2953" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2953" rel="nofollow">cf RIC Online #2953</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2953" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2953" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]429556[/ATTACH] </a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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