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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3118800, member: 75937&quot;]Here&#039;s my silvered ORIENS AVG antoninianus of Aurelian. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]793088[/ATTACH] </p><p>Aurelian AD 270-275. </p><p>Roman silvered billon Antoninianus, 3.60 gm, 21.7 mm, 6 h. </p><p>Rome mint, officina 9, issue 11, early – September AD 275. </p><p>Obv: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust, right. </p><p>Rev: ORIE-N-S AVG, Sol walking r., holding olive branch in r. hand and bow in l. hand, l. foot resting on a captive in oriental dress kneeling on the ground to r., head turned l., r. hand raised; * in left field, XXIR in exergue. </p><p>Refs: RIC 64; MER/RIC temp 1834; RCV 11569; Hunter 23; Cohen 159; La Venera 1321-32.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes: This reformed antoninianus of the mint of Rome depicts Sol Invictus holding an olive branch and bow and treading on an enemy in Oriental costume. In the exergue, the initial R(oma) follows the mark of the reform XXI. Normally, a Greek officina letter appears before the XXIR on this issue; however, on this coin from the 9th officina, a star in the left field allows the letter Θ (= the Greek numeral for 9) to be circumvented. The letter was considered a bad omen, being the first letter of thanatos, the word for death, and which was used in funerary epigraphy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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