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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4676759, member: 87809&quot;]Which triumph of 281 AD? </p><p><br /></p><p>It was in 278 AD, that Probus defeated the Alamanni, expelled the Franks from Gaul, reorganized the Roman defenses on the Rhine and resettled the Germanic tribes in the devastated provinces. </p><p><br /></p><p>Marvin Tameanko&#039;s monograph, “Monumental Coins: Buildings &amp; Structures on Ancient Coinage”, (p. 161) notes&nbsp; &quot;The emperor Probus, 276-282 AD, struck an enormous series of Antoniniani showing a hexastyle temple with the legend ROMA AETER. This temple may be a representation of Hadrian&#039;s temple to Roma and Venus, with four central columns removed to show the statue of a seated Roma in the center.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The mint at Rome used a system of Greek numeral letters A, B, G, D, E, S, and Z for the officina 1 through 7. For Probus, R in exergue stands for Rome, as set out by Pink by his dating:</p><p><br /></p><p>Issue 1 Mintmark - //XXIA to //XXIZ or A //XXI to Z // XXI - Dated to 276 AD</p><p>Issue 2 Mintmark - //R, //RA to //RZ - Dated to 277 AD</p><p>Issue 3 Mintmark - //R star A to //R star Z - Dated to 278 AD</p><p>Issue 4 Mintmark - //R crescent A to //R crescent Z - Dated to 279 AD</p><p>Issue 5 Mintmark - //R wreath A to //R wreath Z - Dated to 280 AD</p><p>Issue 6 Mintmark - //R thunderbolt A to //R thunderbolt Z - Dated to 281 AD</p><p>Issue 7 Mintmark - //RAA, //REB, //RQΓ, //RVΔ, //RIε, //RTς, //RIZ - Dated to 282 AD (AEQVITI)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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