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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8235637, member: 85693&quot;]Great coins on this thread for sure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a sestertius of Commodus (with a [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] note on the date):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448693[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Commodus&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(late 189 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>M COMMOD [ANT P] FELIX AVG [BRIT P P], laureate head right / MAR[T PACA]T P M TR P XIIII IMP [VIII CO]S V DES VI, S C, Mars, nude except cloak standing left holding branch and inverted spear.</p><p>RIC III 543; BMCRE 636.</p><p>(21.13 grams / 28 x 26 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2022 </p><p><b>Notes:</b> </p><p>OCRE says Mars is holding a &quot;sceptre&quot; but it is clearly an inverted spear on most specimens. </p><p>&quot;The coin is dated to 189 AD by the...(TRP XIIII) and to the later part of that year by the designation&nbsp; (DES VI) that Commodus planned to assume his 6th consulship at the start of the next year.&quot;</p><p>Doug Smith on FORVM</p><p><br /></p><p>Mars the Avenger on a Claudius II antoninianus:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448692[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Claudius II&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Antoninianus </b></p><p><b>(Sept. 268-end 269 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint (1st Issue)</b></p><p>IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, / MARS VLTOR, Mars walking right, holding transverse spear and trophy of captured arms</p><p>RIC V 66 (see notes).</p><p>(2.69 grams / 21 x 18 mm)</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022 Ck&nbsp; </p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b></p><p>Cunetio 1989; Normanby 668; Venèra 7329-7395; Çanakkale 1481-1509; Colonne 319; Hunter IV 21.</p><p>&quot;Refers to Claudius&#039; great victory over the Goths at Naissus...Against all advice, Claudius confronted the barbarians at Naissus in Upper Moesia....and annihilated them.&quot; (all info from FORVM listing)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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