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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3293865, member: 85693"]What a fascinating post! This is a great example of how Coin Talk can expand the knowledge of a single type in one place (Jochen, that mythological background research is dazzling!). Thanks for getting this going, Roman Collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in March I landed a Trebonianus Gallus IVNO MARTIALIS from Antioch (RIC 83). Thanks to this post I am more excited about it now (it is not very pretty). I am not entirely sure if I am interpreting the Officina marks correctly - my specimen is a bit crude on very base metal. As with all my coins of this era, I went to Sonic.net for more information - there you can find an extensive collection of the various Officinae marks. According to this site, this appears to be the most common "second issue" from that mint. As for the Antioch mint issues it says this:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Gallus' third issue at Antioch has the exact same obverse inscription as the first and second issues, and RIC does distinguish between any of the three issues. Nevertheless they are easy to differentiate: The first issue shows Gallus undraped and with a fine style portrait with officina marks only on the obverse, the second issue is the same but uses officina marks on both sides of the coins, while the third issue coins show Gallus draped with a coarse style portrait. I am starting to collect data on all the officina marks. The officina data for Gallus Antioch coins in RIC isn't of much use because it mixes all the issues."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus%20Antioch%20Third%20Issue.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus%20Antioch%20Third%20Issue.htm" rel="nofollow">http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus Antioch Third Issue.htm</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's mine (VII / VII officina, maybe) - it is draped and the portrait style qualifies as "coarse style" I think. As for what she is holding in her hand, could those be "obstetric forceps" as posted by Jochen? I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies, but it doesn't look like grain ears or scissors to me:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]871415[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3293865, member: 85693"]What a fascinating post! This is a great example of how Coin Talk can expand the knowledge of a single type in one place (Jochen, that mythological background research is dazzling!). Thanks for getting this going, Roman Collector. Back in March I landed a Trebonianus Gallus IVNO MARTIALIS from Antioch (RIC 83). Thanks to this post I am more excited about it now (it is not very pretty). I am not entirely sure if I am interpreting the Officina marks correctly - my specimen is a bit crude on very base metal. As with all my coins of this era, I went to Sonic.net for more information - there you can find an extensive collection of the various Officinae marks. According to this site, this appears to be the most common "second issue" from that mint. As for the Antioch mint issues it says this: "Gallus' third issue at Antioch has the exact same obverse inscription as the first and second issues, and RIC does distinguish between any of the three issues. Nevertheless they are easy to differentiate: The first issue shows Gallus undraped and with a fine style portrait with officina marks only on the obverse, the second issue is the same but uses officina marks on both sides of the coins, while the third issue coins show Gallus draped with a coarse style portrait. I am starting to collect data on all the officina marks. The officina data for Gallus Antioch coins in RIC isn't of much use because it mixes all the issues." [url]http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus%20Antioch%20Third%20Issue.htm[/url]. Here's mine (VII / VII officina, maybe) - it is draped and the portrait style qualifies as "coarse style" I think. As for what she is holding in her hand, could those be "obstetric forceps" as posted by Jochen? I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies, but it doesn't look like grain ears or scissors to me: [ATTACH=full]871415[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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