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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4172597, member: 85693"]My go-to site for Viminacium coins is this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.viminacium.nl/English%20index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.viminacium.nl/English%20index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.viminacium.nl/English index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is one of the most useful sites I know of to see varieties - great illustrations with a huge amount of detail and well-organized. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two of mine gifted to me by the generous tenbobbit recently. When attributing them, I used notes from the site linked above.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1074567[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Gordian III Æ Dupondius</b></p><p><b>Year 4 (July 242-243 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Viminacium, Moesia</b> <b>Superior</b></p><p>IMP CAES M ANT [GORDIANVS AVG], radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right /</p><p>PMS C OLVIM, Moesia stdg. facing, bull and lion either side. AN IIII in ex. Varbanov 119; Pick 84; Martin 1.32.1. </p><p>(7.61 grams / 23 x 21 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>"Remark: Finer lettering and finer portrait of Gordian. On the reverse there is some spacing between PMS and the letter C and between de letter C and the</p><p>head of Moesia."</p><p><b>viminacium.nl website</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Herennia Etruscilla Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>Year 12 (250-251 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Viminacium, Moesia</b> <b>Superior</b></p><p>HER ETR - VSCILLA AV draped bust right / PM - S - COLVIM, Moesia standing</p><p>between bull and lion, holding branch in raised right hand, left hand over lion, AN XII in ex.</p><p>Pick 139; Varbanov 181</p><p>(9.89 grams / 25 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>"The diadem in the hair is breaking the obverse legend between ETR and VSCILLA. The branch which Moesia is holding (makes) her look like the personification</p><p>of Pax (peace). The message on this coin probably is that with the house of Decius the peace is restored in the Roman world."</p><p><b>viminacium.nl website</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4172597, member: 85693"]My go-to site for Viminacium coins is this one: [URL]http://www.viminacium.nl/English%20index.html[/URL] It is one of the most useful sites I know of to see varieties - great illustrations with a huge amount of detail and well-organized. Here are two of mine gifted to me by the generous tenbobbit recently. When attributing them, I used notes from the site linked above. [ATTACH=full]1074567[/ATTACH] [B]Gordian III Æ Dupondius Year 4 (July 242-243 A.D.) Viminacium, Moesia[/B] [B]Superior[/B] IMP CAES M ANT [GORDIANVS AVG], radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / PMS C OLVIM, Moesia stdg. facing, bull and lion either side. AN IIII in ex. Varbanov 119; Pick 84; Martin 1.32.1. (7.61 grams / 23 x 21 mm) [B]Attribution Note: [/B] "Remark: Finer lettering and finer portrait of Gordian. On the reverse there is some spacing between PMS and the letter C and between de letter C and the head of Moesia." [B]viminacium.nl website Herennia Etruscilla Æ Sestertius Year 12 (250-251 A.D.) Viminacium, Moesia[/B] [B]Superior[/B] HER ETR - VSCILLA AV draped bust right / PM - S - COLVIM, Moesia standing between bull and lion, holding branch in raised right hand, left hand over lion, AN XII in ex. Pick 139; Varbanov 181 (9.89 grams / 25 mm)[B] [/B] [B]Attribution Note: [/B] "The diadem in the hair is breaking the obverse legend between ETR and VSCILLA. The branch which Moesia is holding (makes) her look like the personification of Pax (peace). The message on this coin probably is that with the house of Decius the peace is restored in the Roman world." [B]viminacium.nl website [/B] [B] [/B] [B] [/B] [B] [/B][/QUOTE]
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