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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4611861, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s Tuesday! That mean&#039;s it&#039;s time for T-Bone! Everybody wants to be nicknamed T-Bone!</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]4ScgSECwlTY[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>After the Goths ambushed the Roman army and killed Trajan Decius and Herennius Etruscus, T-Bone was promptly hailed as Augustus by his soldiers. Considering the success of the Gothic ambush on the Roman troops, T-Bone decided not to engage them but to buy peace from the Goths at a very high price. Gallus was quick to use coins for political purposes and his first issue included an antoninianus with the inscription MARTI PACIFERO (to Mars the peace bringer) &quot;to put a good light on the peace bought from the Goths&quot; (Mattingly, RIC IV-3, p. 156). Two other of Gallus&#039; first-issue coins also bolster a positive image of the treaty: PAX AVGVS (the peace from the emperor) and PROVIDENTIA AVG(G) (the foresight of the emperor).</p><p><br /></p><p>While these coins bear some of the reverse types from T-Bone&#039;s first issue at Antioch, they are from his third issue. They differ in bust type: the first issue shows Gallus cuirassed but without a <i>paludamentum</i> (i.e. undraped) and with a fine style portrait with officina marks only on the obverse; the second issue is the same but uses officina marks on both&nbsp; sides of the coins, while the third issue coins (AD 252-3) show Gallus draped with a coarse style portrait (Metcalf, p. 79). RIC does not distinguish between any of the three issues. There is an excellent article on these coins written by William Metcalf that can be found in ANS Museum Notes 22 entitled <i><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43573549" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43573549" rel="nofollow">The Antioch Hoard of Antoniniani and the Eastern Coinage of Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian</a>. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-marti-pacifero-antioch-antoninianus-jpg.1002426/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.96 g, 20.5 mm, 12 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 252-3.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: MARTI PACIFERO, Mars advancing left, holding olive branch and spear.</p><p>Refs: RIC 85; RSC 72; RCV --; Cunetio 412; Eauze 1038.</p><p>Notes: Only 4 examples in the Cunetio hoard; 1 example in the Eauze hoard; however, multiple examples in the Dorchester hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-pax-avgvs-antioch-antoninianus-jpg.991664/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.39 g, 21.3 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 252-3.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right; ••• behind.</p><p>Rev: PAX AVGVS, Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse scepter; ••• in exergue.</p><p>Refs: RIC 86; Cohen 8; RCV 9641, Hunter 60; ERIC II 57.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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