I recently picked up this sestertius of Volusianus to go with my antoninianus. VOLUSIAN SESTERTIUS VIMINACIUM, Moesia Superior, 251-253 A.D. AE28.2mm., 14.54 gm. Obv: IMP CC VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: PMS COL VIM . Female figure (Provincia Moesia) standing, facing left, between bull to left and lion to right; in ex. ANXIII Ref: Sear 4361v; BMC 45v ; Moushmov 60 Please show your Volusian Sestertii
I only have an antoninianus: 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.
That's a nice Volusian, with good portrait and terrific patina, I only have one not as round as yours, it seems the provinces were doing a better job in that regard than Rome.
Here's mine: Is it known whether the provincial issues of the right weight really circulated as sestertii? I've often wondered...
This is the only example from this emperor in my collection: Volusianus, 251 – 253 Sestertius 251-253, Æ, Rome. OBV: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev: FELICITAS PVBLICA S – C Felicitas standing l., holding caduceus and sceptre and leaning on column. C35. RIC 251a.
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
Thank you. I bought this from a dealer who has since gone out of business. He was a good dealer and was always willing to make deals on his offerings. Too bad he's moved on to something else.
Not a sestertius, but just as heavy: tetrassarion from Anazarbus. Ex cng, ex Estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. The red patches are not as distracting coin in hand
