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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2143625, member: 19463&quot;]That is a nice type and clash worthy of note.&nbsp; I recently showed my new Mars so here I&#039;ll tack on the old version.&nbsp; The interesting part of MARTI PACIFERO is the god being fully dressed.&nbsp; Mars is often shown nude and a figure dressed like this might be called Virtus or a soldier were it not for the legend naming Mars.&nbsp; How are we to know what was in the mind of the coin designer?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]410491[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Since the OP coin is from the joint reign with Valerian, I&#039;ll show here a related but very different coin of the father.&nbsp; The reverse is DEO VOLKANO in temple. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]410495[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of joint reigns, it is probably easier to understand the big picture if we look at each mint production as a whole rather than just one ruler but not the other.&nbsp; This type also comes in a CAES obverse for Valerian II and there a a temple coin for Salonina which I do not have. </p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=161745" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=161745" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=161745</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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