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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SIliquae, post: 2365291, member: 76032&quot;]Ooouuuppps, I&#039;m late, happy birthday to you MM !!</p><p>I increase this post with one of my siliquae, just input this week. A NotInRic, no other know in the world. But a little bit later for your study...</p><p><br /></p><p>[table][tr][td]</p><p><a href="http://www.siliques.fr/SILIQUAE_WEB/image_grande/01085.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.siliques.fr/SILIQUAE_WEB/image_grande/01085.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.siliques.fr/SILIQUAE_WEB/imagette/01085.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><i><b><font size="3">Crédit : ©Siliquae</font></b></i></p><p>[/td]</p><p>[td]<b>half-siliqua</b>, 439-455, R5</p><p>A/ <b>D N PLA VALENTINIANVS P F AVG</b></p><p><i>Dominus Noster Placidius Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus, Notre Seigneur Placide Valentinien Pieux et Heureux Auguste</i></p><p>Buste à droite, drapé et cuirassé, tête diadémée (Rosettes).</p><p>R/ <b>GLORIA RO-MANORVM//RVPS</b></p><p><i>Gloria Romanorum, La Gloire des Romains</i></p><p>La victoire debout à gauche tenant à la main une longue croix.</p><p>Silver, 0.64 gr, 14.2 mm, 12h - RIC X 3724-V, RSC 2†Bb[/td]</p><p>[/tr]</p><p>[/table]</p><p><b><u>Comments</u></b> :</p><p><i>RIC describes this reference for a siliqua. This is, given the weight of the show half a siliqua. The description of the RIC also provides a star in the field. The plate of the RIC don&#039;t indicate a star. This is probably a description error of the RIC.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Platte of the RIC X :</i></p><p><a href="http://www.servimg.com/view/17007490/950" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.servimg.com/view/17007490/950" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i84.servimg.com/u/f84/17/00/74/90/sans_t11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>After closing the mint of Milan in 423, mint of Ravenna continued to struck siliqua </p><p>to 1/288th of a pound (1.2gr) and half-siliqua (0.4gr - 0.8gr).</p><p>Mints associated pseudo-workshops, attributed to Visigoth, continue to meet or less these instructions. It is in this context that is the issue of this half-siliqua in the name of Valentinian III.</p><p>The copy presented seems the same obverse dies than the platte of RIC X used to describe this reference RIC 3724 (Museum of Washington, Dumbarton Oaks), although its weight is lighter.</p><p>These elements make this half-siliqua extremely rare, almost unique, whose conservation status is exemplary by the absence of trimming and wide blank.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.siliques.fr/SILIQUAE_WEB/fichemonnaie/01085.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.siliques.fr/SILIQUAE_WEB/fichemonnaie/01085.htm" rel="nofollow">Recorded inside data-basis Siliquae</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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