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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7831844, member: 98035&quot;]Gallienus was the last to produce any bronze coins bearing SC at Rome, ostensibly shortly after the capture of his father in 260</p><p>Mine is an earlier issue, from the joint reign of the 250s</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345944[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an example, but some (not most) sestertii of Postumus bear SC on them</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3258883" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3258883" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3258883</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a very rare &quot;anonymous&quot; double sestertius showing Gallienus as Genius, and the mysterious inscription INT VRB S C on the reverse - some have proposed that this could have been a special issue by Gallienus, or to mark his death in 268 before Claudius II was ratified, or during the interregnum between the death of Aurelian and the elevation of Tacitus. This is probably the last &quot;Roman&quot; coin to feature SC on it.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=187668" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=187668" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=187668</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian issued &quot;sestertii&quot; but there is no SC anywhere on them, indicating that they may actually be medallions.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345949[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When bronze was reintroduced&nbsp; by Diocletian&#039;s reforms, no pretense of obtaining senatorial approval was needed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward over 250 years later, when Rome was ruled by Barbarians but the Senate was somehow still around and ceremoniously &quot;functioning&quot; - the Ostrogoth king Theodahad apparently found a nice old Flavian sestertius and used it as his inspiration for a new &quot;sestertius&quot;, SC and all.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=206929" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=206929" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=206929</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian preserved the ancient Senate when he retook Rome, but it slowly fizzled out and disappeared sometime after 603, which is the last recorded mention of the Senate. No byzantine coins bear SC on them, by the way![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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