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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3856948, member: 98035"]Thanks for the replies, all!</p><p><br /></p><p>There were a handful of provincial coins with pyramids on them, but IIRC the only ones that look like the Giza pyramids are from Caesarea.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is very cool and one I haven't seen before! I agree it does look barbarous, although from a historical sense I could also see it being official. Magnentius fell almost a week before Decentius did, and although history tells us that both usurpers took their own lives, history from the mid 4th century is also notorious for its bias. Perhaps he could have declared himself emperor - after all, he clearly had nothing to lose by doing so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which reminds me of another that I had forgotten in my list - Saloninus as Augustus!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=379490" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=379490" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=379490</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I bid on the lesser of the two and was in the lead until about two hours before the auction ended. These were struck by a desperate Saloninus who was under siege by Postumus in Cologne; apparently the only coins that were not destroyed when Cologne gave up the teenaged emperor were those that were very well hidden. Only about 60 exist of all types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3856948, member: 98035"]Thanks for the replies, all! There were a handful of provincial coins with pyramids on them, but IIRC the only ones that look like the Giza pyramids are from Caesarea. That is very cool and one I haven't seen before! I agree it does look barbarous, although from a historical sense I could also see it being official. Magnentius fell almost a week before Decentius did, and although history tells us that both usurpers took their own lives, history from the mid 4th century is also notorious for its bias. Perhaps he could have declared himself emperor - after all, he clearly had nothing to lose by doing so. Which reminds me of another that I had forgotten in my list - Saloninus as Augustus! [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=379490[/URL] I bid on the lesser of the two and was in the lead until about two hours before the auction ended. These were struck by a desperate Saloninus who was under siege by Postumus in Cologne; apparently the only coins that were not destroyed when Cologne gave up the teenaged emperor were those that were very well hidden. Only about 60 exist of all types.[/QUOTE]
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