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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 8222288, member: 77226&quot;]Not much new here. Coins of quality are more expensive than I want to spend at this time, so I&#039;m just picking up some ebay snacks when there&#039;s a good deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Quintillus I picked up last week. The portrait is really nice and the surfaces on the reverse are pretty much without wear (so they looked about this ugly when new). One intersesting additional detail about this coin is that it appears to be an overstrike. In the reverse field upper left, you can see the remnants of a wing, similar to the wings on the Gallienus Pegasus winged horse zoo series coins (it&#039;s more apparent in-hand). I can&#039;t be sure of the under type but it sure looks to be the style of those earlier Gallienus coins. I don&#039;t actively collect Quintillus coins but snag them here-and-there and now have about 10 reverse types (of varying quality). I plan to make a stand alone post soon. I guess what I like about coins of this era is that the artistry of the portraits is still really high, it&#039;s just the manufacture of the coins themselves (flans, strike, wearing out dies) that is terrible. So nice portraits, during a fast moving time, at a low cost.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1444330[/ATTACH]</p><p>Quintillus, 270</p><p>Siscia, 4th officina</p><p>Ob: IMP C M AVR QVINTILLVS AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Quintillus to right seen from rear.</p><p>Rev. VBERITAS AVG / Q Uberitas standing front, head to left, holding purse in her right hand and cornucopia with her left.</p><p>RIC 79 (Mediolanum). RIC online 1259.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a beauty! I love those chi-rho coins. I have a very ugly example of Decentius but not worth showing here (ugly). Nice coin! I&#039;d love to get a Constantius II version.</p><p><br /></p><p>Terence, I&#039;m always jealous of your coins. I love the scorpion! Thanks for showing it off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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