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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 5171306, member: 98035&quot;]Super grab at that price! Lovely obverse details especially.</p><p><br /></p><p>My last are the matching pair of Aurelian and Severina:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211075[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211076[/ATTACH]</p><p>(The Severina was a happy surprise in a ~$5/coin lot from Roma!)</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also worth mentioning that they minted the last circulating AE coins prior to Diocletian&#039;s reforms; metrologically they are asses (~8-11g, 22-25mm) but it makes more sense that they would be reduced sestertii, or perhaps another denomination, if Aurelian&#039;s reforms can&#039;t be nearly expressed in pre-reform terms.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211080[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211081[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had done some research into the denarius in the post-Gordian era:</p><p>- Philip I, Otacilia Severa, and Philip II minted them; they are extremely rare</p><p>- Decius and family did not mint them (despite minting the full gamut of AE coinage, including the last-ever imperial semis)</p><p>- Gallus and Volusian did not mint them</p><p>- Aemilian did not mint them</p><p>- Uranius Antoninus minted them (which lends credence to the theory that he may have usurped earlier than the 250s)</p><p>- Valerian, Gallienus and family minted them early in their reigns, possibly for limited circulation (they are the second most affordable after Aurelian)</p><p>- Postumus minted them, possibly as off-strikes from aureus dies</p><p>- Victorinus minted them, struck from aureus dies</p><p>- Tetricus I and II minted them</p><p>- Claudius II minted them</p><p>- Aurelian and Severina minted them for limited circulation</p><p>- Tacitus and Florian minted them</p><p>- Probus minted them</p><p>- Carus, Carinus, and Numerian minted them</p><p>- Carausius famously minted them in fine silver in limited numbers but a wide variety of artistically interesting designs</p><p>- Diocletian and Maximian minted them, and I believe Constantius and Galerius did as well (albeit easy to confuse with post-reform laureate fractions if no silvering is present)</p><p>- It is uncertain whether the &quot;Denarius Communis&quot; correlated to an actual post-reform coin, or simply an accounting unit.</p><p>- The Argenteus I believe was called the denarius argenteus by the ancient Romans, and I believe that the VLPP coinage was the last issuance of that - I have one that is struck in solid billon rather than silvered AE</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211087[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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