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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2135841, member: 31620&quot;]I have generally held back from adding coins to my Probus hoard other than the coins from Lugdunum that I occasionally find. I was however tempted by a couple of coins recently and this is one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Probus Antoninianus </b></p><p>Obv:– IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, Radiate bust left in imperial mantle, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle</p><p>Rev:– PAX AVG, Pax standing left, olive-branch in right hand, transverse scepter in left</p><p>Minted in Ticinium (Q | _ / XXI), Emission 7, Officina 4. A.D. 280</p><p>Reference(s) – RIC 704 var. (Q right); Alföldi Siscia V, type 41, 79 (citing London); Pink VI/1, p. 53;</p><p><br /></p><p>A nice, well centered example, good strike, very little wear and nearly fully silvered.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132xe_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins with the officina mark in the left field from Siscia are very much the exception with &gt;99% of coins with the officina mark in the field being in the right field. Obtaining one isn&#039;t necessarily that difficult however if you are willing to settle for an example from this die pair. I suspect that a hoard including several examples from this die pair came on to the market since 2008 and thus there are probably about a dozen or so examples in various online databases if you care to look for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following being just one example for comparison:-</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407296[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My reserach into these coins also turned up an obverse die link to an example with the same reverse type but with the officina mark in exe. which we would attribute to the 4th emission fating to A.D. 277, some three years earlier than my example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]407295[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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