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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24830352, member: 26430&quot;]Good post and nice run of Denarii. Esty&#039;s page on this topic is also very useful. I referred to it several times when trying to figure something out having to with these types.</p><p><br /></p><p>It can be hard to find those Septimius Denarii with complete legends. At one point I had several ADVENTI- and PROFECTIO types, but most had weak legends or undersized flans.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>expandable thumbnails showing a few for the curious:</i></p><p>[ATTACH]1590009[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1590010[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1590011[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1590012[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got some others from the mid 3rd century (a couple Philip I, Trajan Decius, several Probus, possibly others).</p><p>[ATTACH]1590013[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1590014[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But my favorite ADVENTVS AVG is this Constantine I (London, c. 311/2 CE):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1590015[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not the most beautiful, but rare-ish, and it fits two of my favorite sub-collections: </p><ul> <li><a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/provenance-coins/" rel="nofollow">&quot;Plate Coins&quot; &amp; Provenance</a> (this coin = Cloke &amp; Toone 7.01.007, ex Toone &amp; DiMarzio Collections, also on Stepniewski&#039;s “Not in RIC” website: CV6, p. 134, Lond. 136);</li> <li><a href="https://conservatoricoins.com/selections-from-the-bce-collection/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://conservatoricoins.com/selections-from-the-bce-collection/" rel="nofollow">Barbarians &amp; Captives</a>.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>The ADVENTVS type with captive underfoot of the horse was popularized by Probus. (I think the imagery had been used before, e.g., by Septimius Severus, but I can&#039;t recall if Septimius had ADVENTVS types with captive beneath the horse&#039;s hoof.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Probus, Siscia, c. 276-282 CE. ADVENTVS PROBI AVG with bound captive beneath horse. Very similar imagery to Constantine&#039;s above, so I&#039;m assuming that imagery was modeled on these, struck 30 years earlier:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1590016[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rome, 281 CE, ADVENTVS AVG. Same imagery:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1590017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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