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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25962668, member: 128351&quot;]There was something funny about a coin of Valerian. In Hegra (Saudi Arabia) an antoninianus of Valerian was found, among many other Roman coins.</p><p>Obv. : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate draped and cuir. bust right, seen from front</p><p>Rev.: SALVS AVGG, Salus standing left holding sceptre and feeding serpent arising from altar</p><p>This coin was not listed in RIC. It appears to be a mule associating two dies cut for two different emissions, very likely in the Rome mint. It often happens for this kind of billon antoniniani which were minted on an industrial scale. I posted it on this forum three years ago and [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER], a former member of this forum, found a parallel... in the Cunetio hoard, found in Wiltshire, England ! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1652042[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Top : specimen from the Cunetio Hoard (Wiltshire, England)</font></p><p><font size="3">Bottom : specimen from Hegra (al-Ula, Saudi Arabia)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>The two coins are struck from different dies but I don&#039;t think any other specimen of this mule have been reported or published. Both were likely struck at roughly the same time, perhaps in the same minting operation, after which both circulated from hand to hand until one ended hoarded in England while the other one was lost in Saudi Arabia...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1652043[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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