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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4848498, member: 96898&quot;]Thanks for the kind words and for posting your coins, everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To me, that coin looks like an overweight Aemilian or Trebonianus Gallus. I can imagine the dialogue at the Viminacium mint:</p><p><br /></p><p>Engraver 1: Any idea how the new guy looks like?</p><p>Engraver 2: Nope. But I heard a rumor he&#039;s fat.</p><p>Engraver 1: Okay. In this case, let&#039;s just do a chubby version of the old one...</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, [USER=93702]@Clavdivs[/USER] is absolutely right. Were there a Netflix series about the crisis of the 3rd century, I would immediately watch it. At least twice. Probably three times. And I would force my friends and family to watch it with me. (If there are any screenwriters lurking this forum, please take this as encouragement. Nobody needs another Marvel series. We want Valerian instead!)</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to the nice Valerian that I posted above, I got two less attractive coins listed for Lugdunum in RIC, though Cologne now is discussed as an alternative mint location for reasons that I don&#039;t know enough about. One is the same type [USER=100731]@Roerbakmix[/USER] has shown, the other one I bought because of the rare depiction of Vulcan on the reverse. Both coins show how this mint in particular used its dies until they literally fell apart. You might think that Valerian&#039;s radiate crown on the second example has some additional rays – but those are just massive die flaws...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170741[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Valerian I, Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 258 AD, Lugdunum mint (?). Obv: Obv: VALERIANVS P F AVG; bust of Valerian I, radiate, draped, l. Rev: DEO VOLKANO; Vulcan, draped, wearing pilos, standing l. in temple, holding hammer in r. hand and pincers in l. hand; at his feet l., anvil. 22mm, 3.16g. Ref: RIC V Valerian 5. Ex Aux Potins Senons, Sens, France.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1170743[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Valerian I, Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 258–259 AD, Cologne mint (RIC: Lugdunum mint), Obv: VALERIANVS P F AVG; draped, cuirassed, radiate bust of Valerian I r. Rev: ORIENS AVGG; Sol standing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l. hand. 21mm, 2.86g. Ref: RIC V Valerian 13. Ex Forvm Ancient Coins.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>This last unspectacular Valerian is from the Rome mint during the later period of his reign. Just as many coins of his son Gallienus, it contains only a homeopathic amount of silver.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170742[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Valerian I, Roman Empire, AE/BI antoninian, 256–257 AD, Rome mint. Obv: IMP C P LIC VAL[ERIANVS P F] AVG; bust of Valerian, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: [P]AX AVG[G]; Pax standing l. holding olive-branch and sceptre; in l. field, T. 20mm, 2.09g. Ref: RIC V Valerian 109var (fieldmark).</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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