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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5011638, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s Veteran&#039;s day in the USA, formerly known as Armistice Day, to commemorate the end of the &quot;War to End All Wars.&quot; The holiday was instituted by nations all over the world in the hopes that it would honor peace extending from that point forward. But such hopes were soon dashed as the world experienced war after war after war through and beyond the rest of the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus&#039; short reign was mainly spent fighting the Goths in the Balkans and the Persians in Syria. A special series of antoninianii with the obverse legend IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG had previously puzzled historians. Mairat observed that these coins have a style similar to that of the Rome mint, but have been discovered predominantly in hoards found in the Balkan area.[1] Besly and Bland postulated that the issue was shipped in mass to support the armies in the Balkans.[2] Their analysis of nineteen coin hoards also showed that this special issue accounted for about half of all the non-Syrian mint coins of Gallus. Such a huge portion of the empire&#039;s coins being shipped to this single area is strong evidence that major military action against the Goths was being funded.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of these coins issued for the troops in the Balkans. It proclaims PAX AETERNA -- eternal peace -- suggesting that it was Gallus&#039; hope that victory against the Goths would result in long-lasting peace, a war to end all wars, so to speak.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trebonianus-gallus-pax-aeterna-antoninianus-milan-jpg.1076196/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.90 g, 21.4 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Branch mint (traditionally attributed to Mediolanum), 2nd emission, AD 252-253.</p><p>Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PAX AETERNA, Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 71; Cohen 76; RCV 9639, Hunter 51; ERIC II 40.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Post your coins of PAX in honor of Armistice Day! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Mairat, Jérôme. Rome XI – Trébonien Galle au Coeur de l’Anarchie Militaire. 2002. <a href="http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/rome/r11/article/2atelier.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/rome/r11/article/2atelier.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/rome/r11/article/2atelier.html</a>, accessed 25 Jan. 2005.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Besly, Edward, and Roger Bland. <i>The Cunetio Treasure: Roman Coinage of the Third Century A.D.</i> The Trustees of the British Museum, 1983, pp. 19-21.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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