Bought last week on a local site for 15 euros incl shipping. Please show your Gallus and Volusian coins, thanks
Trebonianus Gallus Coin: Silver Antoninianus IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG - Radiate, draped bust right PROVIDENTIA AVGG - Providentia draped, standing facing, looking left, holding globe in right hand, transverse sceptre in left hand Mint: Rome (251 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 4.27g / 22mm / - Rarity: R1 Volusian Coin: Silver Ant IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG - Radiate draped bust right P M TR P IIII COS II, - Emperor standing left, holding patera over tripod altar, and sceptre. Mint: Rome (253 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 2.64g / 21mm / - Rarity: Scarce References: RIC IV 141 Sear[ME]#9763
WOW what a bargain, two coins with good detail for 7.5 Euro each. That's what makes collecting ancients so appealing you can buy a piece of history so cheap. Well done. I don't have a Gallus as yet but have a Volusian sestertius.
I just got this one this week! Obverse: Radiate bust of Gallus right IMP CC VIB TREB GALLVS AVG Reverse: Draped figure of Pietas standing left PIETAS AVGG Reference: RIC 72; RSC 88 Sear 2790
Now that is bargain hunting @Andres2 (wait; are you trying to out bargain me and Doug?) Good job. TREBONIANUS GALLUS AR Antoninianus OBVERSE: IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG - Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. REVERSE: LIBERTAS PVBLICA - Libertas standing left, holding pileus and scepter Struck at Rome, 251-253 AD 3.5g, 21mm RIC 38 VOLUSIAN AE30 OBVERSE: AVTOK K G AFIN GAL OVEND OVOLOCCIANOC CEB, radiate and draped bust right REVERSE: ANTIOXEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-e, SC below, Tyche seated facing within tetrastyle temple, the river-god Orontes swimming beneath her, ram leaping right above Struck at Syria-Antioch, 251-253 AD 17.1g, 30mm SNGCop 295
Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253 Roman billon antoninianus; 3.80 g, 20.8 mm Rome, AD 253 Obv: IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right Rev: FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae Refs: RIC 33; Cohen 37; RCV 9629; Hunter 4 Volusian, 251-253 Roman billon antoninianus; 3.21 g, 20.6 mm Rome, AD 253 Obv: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right Rev: P M TR P IIII COS II, emperor standing left, sacrificing over altar and holding short scepter Refs: RIC 141; Cohen 94; Sear 9793; Hunter 3
Look more carefully at the obverse inscription, @Bing . It's not from the Rome mint. It's: Uncertain mint (Milan?), AD 252 Obv: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right Rev: LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and transverse scepter Refs: RIC 70; Cohen 68; RCV 9636; Hunter 50
Great coins everyone! Very cool Viminacium OP coins. Check out this site if you have not: http://www.viminacium.nl My Trebonianus Gallus is not from Viminacium but here he is:
Interestingly, according to Ian J. Sellers' The Monetary System of the Romans: A description of the Roman coinage from early times to the reform of Anastasius (p. 289), coinage in the name of Herennia Etruscilla (whose son, Hostilian, was adopted by Trebonianus Gallus) appears to have continued under Gallus, at least until the death of Hostilian. Here's a coin of Etruscilla from Viminacium (but not during Trebonianus' reign): Herennia Etruscilla, AD 249-251 Roman provincial Æ; 12.67 g, 27.45 mm, 7:00 Moesia Superior, Viminacium, AD 249-250 Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right Rev: P M S COL VIM, Moesia standing left between bull and lion; ANXI (year 11 = 249/50) in exergue Refs: SGI 4220 var.; BMC 3.18, 32 var.; Pick 136; Moushmov 48
Okay. I'll admit I just took the sellers attribution in this case. That was 2-3 years ago so I have no excuse. It's more than obvious it was wrong. Thanks for pointing it out and it has been corrected in my catalog.
WOW, What a terrific OP bargain!! As always, so many wonderful posts!! I'll pile on with my T Gallus and Volusion:
15 euros for both?! excellent buy. My sestertius of Volusianus: Volusianus Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 251. Obv: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev: FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing left, leaning on column, holding caduceus and sceptre; S-C across fields. RIC 251
The Viminacium bronzes from this period are an interesting group. Mine is year 12 Hostilian as Caesar in yer 12 Gallus is also year 12
The bust on the right in the OP (in the Capitoline Museum) is generally attributed to Trajan Decius. As far as I know, there are no surviving busts of Volusianus known.
Interesting and cheap, that's neat @Andres2 My contribution to the thread : Trebonianus Gallus, Antoninianus struck in Rome, AD 251-252 IMP CAE C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG, Radiate and draped bust of Trebonianus right FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing left, holding cornucopia and caduceus. Star in field 2.57 gr Ref : Cohen #37, RCV #9629 Trebonianus Gallus, AE 8 Assaria SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. AYTOK K G OYIB TPEB GALLOC CEB, Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ANTIOXEWN MHTPO KOLWN, Tyche seated facing within tetrastyle temple; below, river god Orontes swimming left; above temple, ram advancing right, head left; Delta and Epsilon across field. SC at exergue 21.08 g, (30mm, 6h) Ref : Sear # 4350, McAlee 1181; SNG Copenhagen 292 (same rev. die). Volusian, Antoninianus Minted in Rome in AD 252 IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate and draped bust of Volusian right IVNONI MARTIALI, Juno seated within a distyle shrine, * in right field 3,60 gr Ref : RCV # 9750, Cohen #45 Volusian, Sestertius minted in Rome, AD 252 IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Volusian right CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia standing left holding patera and double cornucopiae. S C n field 16.49 gr Ref : RCV # 9784, Cohen # 21 Q