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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8283316, member: 99456"]I've never been too comfortable committing to "same artist" on any ancients and I don't know how mints have been assigned for coins of Quintillus.  With those caveats, my first guess would be aligned with [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER]'s comment: dies might easily have been created in one place and coins struck in another.  A second option also seems reasonable: a traveling engraver with the mints only a few days journey from each other.  For this short lived emperor "under fire" and trying to win support from the troops and establish his legitimacy with the consecration of his brother and high volume minting of coins, both options seems reasonable to me. [ATTACH=full]1463132[/ATTACH]Aurelian declared emperor in Sirmium - not far east of Siscia.[ATTACH=full]1463136[/ATTACH]tiny flans, weak strikes, worn dies, but at least one great portrait artist :[ATTACH=full]1463130[/ATTACH]Quintillus, 270, Antoninianus (Bronze, 18mm, 2.37g, 6h), Mediolanum, August-November 270.Obv: IMP QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Quintillus to rightRev: CONCO EXER / T, Concordia standing front, head to left, holding signum in her right hand and cornucopiae in her leftRef: <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.qu.47" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.qu.47" rel="nofollow">RIC V 47</a>[/QUOTE]