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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4593094, member: 96898"]I have moved to a different time zone – thus it already is Saturday night for me. Time to revive this thread. The last weeks have been stressful with very little time for coins (or pretty much any other fun things), but now I'm settled in, in post-travel quarantine, sitting at my new desk, writing tags and taking pictures of some more or less recent Roman acquisitions: [ATTACH=full]1137312[/ATTACH]Roman Republic, moneyer: M. Cato, AR quinarius, 89 BC, Rome mint. Obv: M CATO; head of Liber r., wearing ivy-wreath; below, control mark (torch?). Rev: VICTRIX; Victory seated r., holding patera in r. hand and palm-branch over l. shoulder. 14mm, 2.12g. Ref: RRC 343/2b. [ATTACH=full]1137311[/ATTACH] Roman Republic, moneyer C. Postumius, AR denarius, 74 BC, Rome mint. Obv: Bust of Diana r., draped, with bow and quiver over shoulder. Rev: C. POSTVMI AT/TA (ligated); hound running r.; below, spear (with graffiti: MABIEN). 18mm, 3.85g. Ref: RRC 394/1a. [ATTACH=full]1137310[/ATTACH] Valerian I, Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 258 AD, Lugdunum mint. Obv: Obv: VALERIANVS P F AVG; bust of Valerian I, radiate, draped, l. Rev: DEO VOLKANO; Vulcan, draped, wearing pilos, standing l. in temple, holding hammer in r. hand and pincers in l. hand; at his feet l., anvil. 22mm, 3.16g. Ref: RIC V Valerian 5.[/QUOTE]