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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 2967567, member: 91461&quot;]In my never ending search for Roman emperors and empresseses (don&#039;t try to correct what you know to be the true way to spell the plural of empress), I just received my Mariniana! The front is good enough to make out that she was a beauty. But the reverse is one of the silliest of the late Roman empire. It&#039;s the little lady (literally she must&#039;ve been tiny to achieve this feet) riding a PIGEON!!!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]727448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727450[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="6"><b>Diva Mariniana: RIC: V6 Billon Antoninianus THIS EXAMPLE HAS IMPROPER METAL MIXTURE WITH SOME SILVERING SHOWING THROUGH AREAS ON THE RREVERSE. 253 AD.</b></font></p><p>I cannot find anywhere how she died but as you may recall her old man, Valerian, was captured by the Persian king Shapur and was rumored to either have been killed and stuffed to be used as the kings footrest or he was the kings living stepping stool when he needed to mount his horse for a decade until the king tired of him and then had him killed by having molten gold poured down his throat.</p><p>His boy Gallerian never even made an attempt to rescue pops (I&#039;m losing sleep and changing diapers, why?)</p><p>Anyway, the seller was super cool and even threw in a couple freebies! The 1st I&#039;m thinking is Arcadius with advancing Victory on the reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]727456[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]727457[/ATTACH]</p><p>The 2nd bonus coin your guess is as good as mine.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]727459[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]727462[/ATTACH] </p><p>Pretty fun! So please post any hard to find Empresseseses, whacky reverses or anything you find fitting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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