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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2936856, member: 74282&quot;]I recently picked up yet another victoriatus, bringing the count to 11 in my collection. This variety with VB is one of the more common signed varieties but the meaning of &quot;VB&quot; has been debated by numismatists for several years and there&#039;s still no clear answer. Traditionally, &quot;VB&quot; has been taken to either be a reference to the type having been minted in or near the city of Vibo Valentia or a reference to a treasury official of the gens Vibia. The Vibo Valentia interpretation is problematic because the city was not named Vibo Valentia until it was made a Roman colony in 194 B.C. and hoard evidence places these victoriati a decade or more earlier, having been minted sometime around the introduction of the denarius system circa 211 B.C., at which time the city still used its Greek name of Hiponnion. The Vibia interpretation is tempting but simply not provable and the VB could equally stand for the little-known city of Vibinum or any number of other things.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]714315[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Victoriatus(17 mm, 2.54g, 7h). Anonymous(&quot;VB&quot; series). ca. 211-208 B.C. Uncertain mint(traditionally, Vibo Valentia). Laureate head of Jupiter right. Border of dots / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; VB ligate on exergue between. ROMA in exergue. Line border. Crawford 95/1a; BMCRR Italy 233; Russo RBW 389</p><p><br /></p><p>As this is victoriatus number 11 and it&#039;s been a while since I shared multiple victoriati in a single post, I put together a virtual tray with all my victoriati as an interesting example of the wide variety of styles associated with these coins, many of which were minted at field mints across Italy, Sicily and Spain during the war with Hannibal.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]714312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>IDs(working left-to-right and top-to-bottom):</p><p>1. Cr. 53/1, anonymous, Rome mint</p><p>2. Cr. 83/1a, spearhead, Apulia(southeast Italy) mint</p><p>3. Cr. 67/1, anonymous, Sicilian mint</p><p>4. Cr. 70/1, anonymous, Sicilian mint(But <i>probably</i> different mint than no. 3)</p><p>5. Cr. 90/2, anonymous, uncertain mint</p><p>6. Cr. 95/1a, VB, uncertain mint(traditionally, but probably not actually, Vibo Valentia)</p><p>7. Cr. 93/1a, MP, uncertain mint(traditionally, Metapontum)</p><p>8. Cr. 92/1b, anonymous(in the style of &quot;CROT&quot; issues), uncertain mint(traditionally, Croton)</p><p>9. Cr. 105/1, pentagram, Etrurian mint</p><p>10. Cr. 106/1, staff, Etrurian mint</p><p>11. Cr. 159/1, fly, Rome mint</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, please share anything relevant. I&#039;d be especially interested to see your virtual trays of similar coins from multiple mints[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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