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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1820285, member: 42773&quot;]You&#039;re right of course, Doug. I suppose it&#039;s just too easy to propagate all sorts of theories without hard evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today’s coin is the weakest of the bunch so I’ll get it over with, an AE3 of Valentinian I. There’s isn’t much to recommend this coin, but it was part of a lot I wanted for other pieces. However, it has made me finally crack open RIC IX and start the long, thick read. I know very little of this post-Constantinian period so it’s high time I buckled down and learned something about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Valentinian I, 321-375 AD</p><p>AE3, 17mm, 2.5g, 6h; Siscia mint, 367-375 AD</p><p>Obv.: DN VALENTINIANVS PF AVG; diademed, draped &amp; cuirassed bust r.</p><p>Rev.: GLORIA RO-MANORVM; Emperor advancing r., dragging captive with r. hand and holding labarum in l. / P - star / K // BSISCV</p><p>Reference: RIC IX Siscia 14a (p. 147), mint mark xxvi (p. 142)</p><p><br /></p><p>The plethora of different mint marks on the coins of Valentinian and Gratian is really rather daunting. How does one ever keep them straight?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s18.postimg.org/r6ofgkm2x/005700.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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