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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3197365, member: 80783&quot;]Wow, yours is a beauty!</p><p><br /></p><p>So the &quot;KAB&quot; on mine would mean Serdica, Emission 4, Officina 2 ???</p><p><br /></p><p>As I always look for some random info on my coins, I read Gesztelyi and Brna´s study about the Sun God on facing quadriga coins and cameos (in German only) today and it states that the production of the type was a means of propaganda closely connected to Probus´visit to the Danubian frontier in the years 277 and 278, as most of these coins were minted in Rome, Siscia and Serdica (3rd and 4th emission), in the years when Probus visited these cities, and were therefore minted to pay the Army in these frontier provinces and present the emperor himself as <i>restitutor</i> and <i>conservator</i> of the Roman world.</p><p>There are neat little differences:</p><p>While on coins from Rome and Siscia the face of Sol and his greeting hand are seen from the <i>front</i>, those from Serdica show them in <i>profile</i> (also Rome and Siscia show the weels <i>below</i> the horses´ rear legs while on the Serdica coins they are always <i>behind</i> them).</p><p>Serdica was also the only mint that used a right facing consular bust sometimes (like on our coins).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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