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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2797248, member: 74834&quot;]I bought a nice coin of the emperor Quietus. Who? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, in fact Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus was the son of the army treasurer Macrian the Elder. Macrian bobbed up in 260 AD after his boss had been captured, the emperor Valerian. Ballista (or Callistus), the prefect of the Praetorian Guard, rallied a body of men and defeated the Great King Shapur, and together Macrian and Ballista revolted against Valerian&#039;s son Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Macrian was too old and infirm to become emperor, and so the soldiers chose to make his sons Macrian junior and Quietus joint emperors. Macrian father and son marched northward, where they met a dire end. Quietus and Ballista stayed in the east, but not quietly, and in 261 they were finished off, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a tetradrachm of Alexandria, one in the well-known series of thick small bronze or potin coins. Year A = 260. 20-22 mm, 9.39 gr.</p><p>I trust I can put the tiny spots of verdigris away - quietly.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]651106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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