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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7970703, member: 44316"]Here is a coin with an obverse legend used only at Serdica: [ATTACH=full]1382593[/ATTACH] IMP C AVRELIANVS INVICTVS AVGon an otherwise common typeRESTITVT ORBIS  (restorer of the world)     ✳   KA•ΓRIC 301 (Serdica). <a href="https://ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2787?tempRIC=&asmSelect0=&Reign=Aurelianus&asmSelect1=&Person=Aurelianus&asmSelect2=&asmSelect3=&asmSelect4=&asmSelect5=&asmSelect6=IMP+C+AVRELIANVS+INVICTVS+AVG&Titulature=IMP+C+AVRELIANVS+INVICTVS+AVG&asmSelect7=&asmSelect8=&asmSelect9=&asmSelect10=&asmSelect11=&BustDescription=&ReverseDescription=&Note=&Reference=&page=1&hpp=100&mod=result&from=advanced#type-specimen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ric.mom.fr/en/coin/2787?tempRIC=&asmSelect0=&Reign=Aurelianus&asmSelect1=&Person=Aurelianus&asmSelect2=&asmSelect3=&asmSelect4=&asmSelect5=&asmSelect6=IMP+C+AVRELIANVS+INVICTVS+AVG&Titulature=IMP+C+AVRELIANVS+INVICTVS+AVG&asmSelect7=&asmSelect8=&asmSelect9=&asmSelect10=&asmSelect11=&BustDescription=&ReverseDescription=&Note=&Reference=&page=1&hpp=100&mod=result&from=advanced#type-specimen" rel="nofollow">RIC on-line 2787</a> Serdica, "Nov. 274-Sept.275"Sear III 11592 variety with INVICTVS. Aurelian had more claim to be "restorer of the world" than other emperors. He reclaimed the east after the rebellion of Zenobia and Vabalathus and reconquered the Gallo-Roman empire. He restored the Roman world! As the coin says, he was "invincible". (For a while, at least.)[/QUOTE]

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