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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6714732, member: 75937"]Saturday night and I'm trying to take a decent photo of an antoninianus of Trebonianus Gallus that isn't exactly photogenic. It's a tad on the <i>porous</i> side.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't expect much luster on these coins -- they were severely debased at this mint. Gallus' coins of the Antioch mint average only 18.9% silver, whereas those issued in Rome were less debased (30.9%), with the least debased being the unknown branch mint previously believed to have been Mediolanum (37.9% silver) (<a href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus?auto=download" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus?auto=download" rel="nofollow">Pannekeet</a>, Table 3).</p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=99239]@Suarez[/USER] says ((ERIC II, p. 474), the "cheap metal alloys from which they were struck fared poorly after going into circulation and fared even worse once buried," making them "range from the eyesore to the barely collectable."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1270853[/ATTACH]</p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman debased AR antoninianus, 3.88 g, 21.4 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Antioch, second officina, second issue, late AD 251 - mid AD 252.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust (viewed from back) of Trebonianus Gallus, right; •• below.</p><p>Rev: VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; •• in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 93; Cohen 126; RCV 9653; Hunter 55.</p><p>Notes: Examples are known from all officinae. The same reverse type is commonly encountered on coins of Gallus' third issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6714732, member: 75937"]Saturday night and I'm trying to take a decent photo of an antoninianus of Trebonianus Gallus that isn't exactly photogenic. It's a tad on the [I]porous[/I] side. I don't expect much luster on these coins -- they were severely debased at this mint. Gallus' coins of the Antioch mint average only 18.9% silver, whereas those issued in Rome were less debased (30.9%), with the least debased being the unknown branch mint previously believed to have been Mediolanum (37.9% silver) ([URL='https://www.academia.edu/3784962/A_theory_on_how_the_denarius_disappeared_and_the_debasement_of_the_antoninianus?auto=download']Pannekeet[/URL], Table 3). As [USER=99239]@Suarez[/USER] says ((ERIC II, p. 474), the "cheap metal alloys from which they were struck fared poorly after going into circulation and fared even worse once buried," making them "range from the eyesore to the barely collectable." [ATTACH=full]1270853[/ATTACH] Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman debased AR antoninianus, 3.88 g, 21.4 mm, 12 h. Antioch, second officina, second issue, late AD 251 - mid AD 252. Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust (viewed from back) of Trebonianus Gallus, right; •• below. Rev: VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; •• in exergue. Refs: RIC 93; Cohen 126; RCV 9653; Hunter 55. Notes: Examples are known from all officinae. The same reverse type is commonly encountered on coins of Gallus' third issue.[/QUOTE]
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