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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7931342, member: 99456"]A nice Volusian, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]. IMO he should certainly count. Volusian was Caesar from July-November 251 and became emperor from from November 251 to August 253. Gallus raised him up to Augustus after Hostilianus (Decius' son whom Gallus had raised to Augustus) died of the plague. (see: <a href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/trebgall.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/trebgall.htm" rel="nofollow">De Imperatoribus Romanis</a>) I'll add a lump of Volusian bronze.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371415[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Volusian,</b> Æ Sestertius</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, bust of Volusian, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia, draped, standing left, holding patera in right hand and double cornucopiae in left hand, S C</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.vo.249" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.vo.249" rel="nofollow">249</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7931342, member: 99456"]A nice Volusian, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]. IMO he should certainly count. Volusian was Caesar from July-November 251 and became emperor from from November 251 to August 253. Gallus raised him up to Augustus after Hostilianus (Decius' son whom Gallus had raised to Augustus) died of the plague. (see: [URL='http://www.roman-emperors.org/trebgall.htm']De Imperatoribus Romanis[/URL]) I'll add a lump of Volusian bronze. [ATTACH=full]1371415[/ATTACH] [B]Volusian,[/B] Æ Sestertius [B]Obv:[/B] IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, bust of Volusian, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right [B]Rev:[/B] CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia, draped, standing left, holding patera in right hand and double cornucopiae in left hand, S C [B]Ref:[/B] RIC [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.vo.249']249[/URL][/QUOTE]
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