A couple of new acquisitions from the Rome mint. I particularly like the artistry on the LIBERTAS AVGG one. Post your T-bones! Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR antoninianus, 4.76 g, 22.1 mm, 1 h. Rome, 5th emission, mid AD 253. Obv: IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right. Rev: AETERNITAS AVGG, Aeternitas standing facing, head left, holding phoenix on globe in right hand and lifting dress with left hand. Refs: RIC 30; Cohen 13; RCV 9625; Hunter 17. Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR antoninianus, 3.95 g, 21.3 mm, 12 h. Rome, 3rd emission, AD 252. Obv: IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right. Rev: LIBERTAS AVGG, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter; star in right field. Refs: RIC 38; RSC 63a; RCV 9634; Hunter 8.
Are you sure that's not Pinocchio on that first coin? Just joshin' ya. Both are very nice examples. Congrats.
Oooh... I had my eye on that second one but wasn't willing to go the distance. Nice coin! I did pick up a T-bone in the same auction, but it is one that might cure anyone of T-bone fever... Trebonianus Gallus, fourrée antoninianus
And I had my eye on that one. In the end, I didn't participate. Nice catch and happy to see that you scored it.
Weird minds think alike I guess... I seem to have a thing for late fourrées ever since I got that Gallienus you and Warren helped me with.
Nice coins of an interesting emperor! With just one T-Bone in my collection, I consider myself only minimally infected: Trebonianus Gallus, Roman Empire, antoninian, 251–153 AD, Mediolanum mint. Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, bust of Trebonianus Gallus, draped, cuirassed, and radiate, r. Rev: PAX AETERNA, Pax standing l., holding up branch in extended r. hand and transverse scepter in l. 22mm, 2.93g. Ref: RIC IV.3 Trebonianus Gallus 71. Ex X6 collection.
Here's mine with the ultimate pointy nose. Also, here's a monumental statue of Gallus in bronze. I believe it once stood in the Forum:
I showed this just a couple of days ago, but what the heck. TREBONIANUS GALLUS AR Antoninianus OBVERSE:IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right REVERSE: LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and transverse scepter Struck at Uncertain mint (Milan?), AD 252 3.5g, 21mm RIC 70; Cohen 68; RCV 9636; Hunter 50
There is no cure for T-bone fever. You just have to succumb! Here is my latest - a somewhat troubled Antioch provincial: Trebonianus Gallus Æ 29 Syria, Antioch ad Orontem (251-253 A.D.) AUTOK K G OUIB TREB GALLO C CEB, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / ANTIOC EWN MHTRO KOLWN D-E, SC in ex, Tyche & river god Orontes in tetrastyle temple, ram right. SNG 292; BMC 654; SGI 4350. (16.66 grams / 29 mm)
