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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 5461910, member: 85693"]Very interesting write-up as usual, RC. I was not aware of the star version. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a Pietas of TB, as well as one of Volusian -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1237784[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Trebonianus Gallus - Anton.</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Branch Mint (Milan?)</b></p><p>IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / PIETAS AVGG, Pietas veiled, standing left by altar, raising both hands.</p><p>RIC 72; RSC 88; Sear 9643.</p><p>(4.14 grams / 24 x 22 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Volusian example comes with an interesting 17th century English reference by Sir Thomas Browne (see below - it came from the wonderful <i>Four Bad Years</i> website):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1237785[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Volusian Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate draped bust right / PIETAS AVGG, Pietas standing left, raising both hands, altar to left.</p><p>RIC 182; RSC 88; Sear 9761.</p><p>(3.31 grams / 20 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>An excerpt from "Brampton Urnes" written by Sir Thomas Browne in 1667:</p><p><br /></p><p>"my noble & honor'd freind, Sr. Robert Paston, had the curiosity to open a part of ground in his park at Oxned wch adjoyned unto the former feild where fragments of pots were found and upon one the figure of a well made face; and there was also found an unusuall coyne of the emperour Volusianus, having on the obverse the head of the Emperor with a radiated crown and this inscription Imp. Cæs. C. Vib Volusiano Aug., that is Imperatori Cæsari Caio Vibio Volusiano Augusto. On the reverse an human figure with the arms somewhat extended, and at the right foot an Altar with the Inscription Pietas. This emperour was sonne unto Caius Vibius Tribonianus Gallus with whom he joyntly raygned after the Decii about the yeare 254; both he himself and his father were slaine by the Emperour Æmilianus; by the radiated crowne this peece should be coyned after his death & consecration, but in whose time it is not cleere in historie."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Volusian%20Rome.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Volusian%20Rome.htm" rel="nofollow">http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Volusian Rome.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 5461910, member: 85693"]Very interesting write-up as usual, RC. I was not aware of the star version. I do have a Pietas of TB, as well as one of Volusian - [ATTACH=full]1237784[/ATTACH] [B]Trebonianus Gallus - Anton. (251-253 A.D.) Branch Mint (Milan?)[/B] IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / PIETAS AVGG, Pietas veiled, standing left by altar, raising both hands. RIC 72; RSC 88; Sear 9643. (4.14 grams / 24 x 22 mm) The Volusian example comes with an interesting 17th century English reference by Sir Thomas Browne (see below - it came from the wonderful [I]Four Bad Years[/I] website): [ATTACH=full]1237785[/ATTACH] [B]Volusian Antoninianus (251-253 A.D.) Rome Mint[/B] IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate draped bust right / PIETAS AVGG, Pietas standing left, raising both hands, altar to left. RIC 182; RSC 88; Sear 9761. (3.31 grams / 20 mm) An excerpt from "Brampton Urnes" written by Sir Thomas Browne in 1667: "my noble & honor'd freind, Sr. Robert Paston, had the curiosity to open a part of ground in his park at Oxned wch adjoyned unto the former feild where fragments of pots were found and upon one the figure of a well made face; and there was also found an unusuall coyne of the emperour Volusianus, having on the obverse the head of the Emperor with a radiated crown and this inscription Imp. Cæs. C. Vib Volusiano Aug., that is Imperatori Cæsari Caio Vibio Volusiano Augusto. On the reverse an human figure with the arms somewhat extended, and at the right foot an Altar with the Inscription Pietas. This emperour was sonne unto Caius Vibius Tribonianus Gallus with whom he joyntly raygned after the Decii about the yeare 254; both he himself and his father were slaine by the Emperour Æmilianus; by the radiated crowne this peece should be coyned after his death & consecration, but in whose time it is not cleere in historie." [URL]http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Volusian%20Rome.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
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