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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3727652, member: 80783&quot;]I was notified that some of you pushed the &quot;like&quot; button for my OP coin yesterday eventhough it has been drowned down in the old posts graveyard for a long time <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I´ll take that as an excuse for some more random research:</p><p><br /></p><p>Banti lists 127 Sestertii of Herennia Etruscilla with the Pudicitia reverse (53 specimens in the Guelma Hoard), but only 10 with Fecunditas, like the OP coin (17 at Guelma).</p><p><br /></p><p>As all of the Pudicitia bronzes feature AVG on the reverse, they must be date from the sole reign of Trajan Decius and must have been the only Sestertius type he struck for his wife during most of his reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Fecunditas type must, due to it´s relative rarity, have been introduced late in his reign (8 specimens with AVG listed by Banti, 16 at Guelma) and, unlike the Pudicitia type, continued into the joint reign of Decius and Herennius Etruscus (2 in Banti plus 3 at Guelma with AVGG).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an even rarer Sestertius (1 specimen in Banti, none at Guelma) of Herennia Etruscilla with a Concordia reverse which only occurs with AVGG and therefore must be her last type in bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be that the AVGG on Herennia´s final coins does not even stand for Decius and his elder son, but for their successors Trebonianus Gallus and Hostilian? Concordia would be a fitting message then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, there seem to be no Sestertii of Trajan Decius himself been struck during his joint reign with his son (none known with AVGG), just like there are no known bronzes of Herennius Etruscus as Augustus (even though his Mercury type Sestertii are inscribed PIETAS AVGG (like this one: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-herennius-etruscus-sestertius.311194/#post-3000557" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-herennius-etruscus-sestertius.311194/#post-3000557">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-herennius-etruscus-sestertius.311194/#post-3000557</a> ).</p><p>Joint reign types of both father and son do exist as Antoniniani, which prooves that new types were introduced in silver first in order pay the troops and promote the new regime.</p><p><br /></p><p>There may have even been a short stop in bronze production at the roman mint altogether in the summer of 251.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sestertii of Hostilian struck during his tenure as Augustus during his joint reign with Trebonianus Gallus do however feature the AVGG, if only on his Securitas reverse, see here:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999471[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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