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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 26804769, member: 77226&quot;]Ok, no guesses? Well if you guessed in your mind… the reverse on the Otacilia is PVDICITIA AVG and the other coin is a rare Volusian from Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the two, the Volusian is (uglier) but far more interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC breaks up coins from the Antioch mint onto two Groups based on the obverse legends. Interestingly this coin has the Group I obverse legend of IMP CC VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG (rather than IMP C V AF&nbsp; GAL VEND VOLVSIANO AVG), with a Group 2 PAX AVGVS reverse. It seems that this coin would be a transitional coin with the older legend and newer reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, this coin has an interesting mint mark, with IIV both front and back. While RIC only notes dotted mint marks for this coin for Volusian, for the mint of Antioch in general, RIC IV notes: <i>“The officinae seem to run from 1 to 7, but 5 is never found (.,..,... or IIV, .... or IV, VI, VII) : will it eventually turn out that there were four officinae only and that VI, VII were irregular variants of IV, IIV (four and three)?” </i>So with officina 5 not found, IIV is likely an interesting way of writing 3, instead of a backward way of writing 7.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also! I&#039;m telling you this coin may be of a rougher style but it is interesting. The obverse of my coin was struck with a die with a chip just below Volusian&#039;s nose. This die chip makes the obverse die easy to spot. Although I haven&#039;t looked hard for it, I did happen on this other coin (temple coin just below mine) that is struck with the same obvserse die across (at least) these two reverse types. They are both of officina IIV (3/7), so it makes sense. Anyway a fun coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>My coin</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1710983[/ATTACH]</p><p>Volusian, Antioch mint, 251-252 AD.</p><p>IMP C C VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, VII beneath bust</p><p>PAX AVGVS, Pax standing facing, head left, branch upward in right hand, transverse sceptre in left, VII below.</p><p>Unlisted with obverse legend and exergue numerals but RIC IV 230v.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not my coin... but showing the same obverse die used, with the die chip below the nose.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1710985[/ATTACH] </p><p>The other coin in last week&#039;s post is of Otacilia Severa with a PVDICITIA AVG reverse. This coin is much more common and not quite as interesting but still nice looking and a good addition. ...one interesting characteristic is the obverse legend which is an earlier legend, including her full name MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA where later legends of the same reverse abbreviate Marcia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1710982[/ATTACH]</p><p>Otacilia Severa, Rome mint, 144-146 ad.</p><p>MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed draped bust right on crescent</p><p>PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicita seated left, raising veil, holding sceptre.</p><p>RIC IV 123c</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Anyway, what are you working on tonight!? Let&#039;s see some of your Saturday Night coins! Remember, this is a free for all, so post anything you wish, new coins, old coins, artifacts, random thoughts, music, whatever.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have some other new stuff I may post if there&#039;s anyone out there reading. Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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