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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3358436, member: 75937&quot;]As is typical for anything written by Mattingly, RIC states rather unequivocally that Trebonianus Gallus struck coins for himself and his son Volusian in Italy proper at two mints, Rome and Mediolanum (Milan). They are supposedly distinguished on the basis of their obverse legends, the Roman inscriptions being the longer IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG for Gallus and IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG for Volusian, and the Mediolanum inscriptions being shorter, reading IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG and IMP C C VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, Sear (RIC 5, vol. III, p. 227) notes there is considerable uncertainty about not only the location of the mint traditionally attributed to Mediolanum, but its actual operation during Gallus&#039; reign. He writes, &quot;Rome continued to be the principal mint throughout this reign and was supplemented ... by antoniniani from Antioch .... Attempts have been made to identify a second provincial mint which produced silver coinage with a more abbreviated form of obverse legend than the regular products of Rome (IMP C C VIB instead of IMP CAE C VIB). Both Milan and Viminacium have been proposed as the source of these coins and it is also possible that they represent a separate issue from Rome itself. In the following listings they are described as &#039;uncertain mint&#039;.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me illustrate these with examples from my own collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ROME MINT </b>(IMP CAE C VIB ...):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889710[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallus, APOLL SALVTARI, RIC 32; Cohen/RSC 20; RCV 9627; Hunter 21.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889712[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallus, IVNO MARTIALIS, RIC 35; Cohen 46; RCV --; ERIC II 73.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889714[/ATTACH]</p><p>Volusian, P M TR P IIII COS II, RIC 141; Cohen 94; RCV 9793; Hunter 3.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>MEDIOLANUM (RIC)/UNCERTAIN (Sear) MINT</b> (IMP C C VIB ...):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889719[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallus, LIBERTAS PVBLICA, RIC 70; RSC/Cohen 68; RCV 9636; Hunter 50.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889723[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gallus, PAX AETERNA, RIC 71; RSC/Cohen 76; RCV 9639; Hunter 51.</p><p>Note: CNG, in its description of an <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=233613" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=233613" rel="nofollow">example of this coin in their auction 302</a>, attributes this not to Mediolanum or an uncertain mint, but assigns it to a special emission of the Rome mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>So, this brings me to my question: <i>How do we know IF and WHERE this second provincial mint was? What&#039;s the evidence for Mediolanum? For Viminacium? For a &quot;special emission&quot; of Rome? </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, feel free to post your Trebonianus Gallus or Volusian coins, comment, or post anything you feel is relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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