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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4412592, member: 75937&quot;]Lovely coins, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] ! I enjoy the barracks emperors and their coins. I&#039;m still waiting for the right Hostilian to come along, too. I have too many Decius and Etruscilla coins to show, so I&#039;ll just show one of each. I&#039;ll try to choose some of the more interesting examples. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like this one because it shows the personifications of Upper and Lower Pannonia, a large region to the west of Dacia which formed much of the north-western part of the Balkan peninsula. The territory roughly comprised present-day western Hungary and parts of eastern Austria, as well as portions of several Balkan states, primarily Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia (Vojvodina).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/trajan-decius-pannoniae-antoninianus-jpg.1029595/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Trajan Decius AD 249-251.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.78 g, 21.5 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 250.</p><p>Obv: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: PANNONIAE, the two Pannoniae standing left and right; each raising right hand; the one on the right holds a standard in her left hand and there is a vertical standard behind the one on the left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 21b; Cohen 86; RCV 9378; Hunter 16.</p><p><br /></p><p>The PVDICITIA seated or standing are by far the most commonly encountered reverse types on the antoniniani of Herennia Etruscilla. This one, though, is scarce and interesting because it&#039;s from the Antioch mint and demonstrates dots under the bust as officina markings, which was a practice continued by that mint under Trebonianus Gallus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/etruscilla-vberitas-avg-antoninianus-antioch-jpg.718446/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-253</p><p>Roman AR Antoninianus; 4.18 g, 23.2 mm, 12 h</p><p>Antioch, AD 250-251</p><p>Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on crescent, hair with horizontal waves and with a long plait carried up the back of the head (Sear type a; Temeryazev and Makarenko type 1); •• below bust</p><p>Rev: VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding marsupium (?) and cornucopiae</p><p>Refs: RIC 68b; RCV 9499.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I could say something interesting about this one, but it&#039;s as mundane as an antoninianus of Herennius Etruscus can get. I&#039;d much rather have a Spes reverse type like yours, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107823[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251.</p><p>Roman AR antoninianus, 3.83 g, 22.4 mm, 11 h.</p><p>Rome, 5th emission, early AD 151.</p><p>Obv: Q HER ETR MES DECIVS NOB C, radiate and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting left elbow on lyre.</p><p>Refs: RIC 146; RSC 24a; Cohen --; RCV 9522; Hunter 9; ERIC II 40.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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