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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4851593, member: 44316&quot;]I have a website about vows on Roman coins:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This VOTA coin arrived recently and it of interest to me because it is explicitly dated and bears on the difference between celebrating vows taken (suscepta) or fulfilled (soluta):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171647[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Postumus</b>, Gallo-Roman emperor, summer 260- spring 269.</p><p>19-17 mm. 3.42 grams.</p><p>IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG</p><p>PM <b>TRP X</b> COV V PP, Victory standing right with <b>VO/XX</b> on shield.</p><p>RIC 295. Cunetio 2469 from Cologne. (Only 8 examples among 12,991 coins of Postumus in the Cunetio Hoard are of this type.)</p><p>&quot;TRP X&quot; dates this to year 10, 269, his last year, so it is from early 269. The vows are for 20 years, so they must be vows on the coin are <i>suscepta--</i> taken, not fulfilled, on the occasion when the original vows for ten years were fulfilled.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many vota types of Diocletian and later emperors which are not explicitly dated. For example, there are fractional coins of Diocletian with VOT/XX/AVGG on them.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171681[/ATTACH] </p><p>Diocletian, AD 284-305</p><p><b>14 mm</b>. 2.00 grams. The <b>small</b> &quot;1/8 follis&quot; denomination.</p><p>DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG</p><p>VOT/XX/AVGG in wreath</p><p><i>RIC</i> VI Trier 610a.</p><p>Zschucke 4.2</p><p>Struck c. September 303 [RIC and Zschucke agree]</p><p>for the festival occasion celebrating vows for twenty years. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder what the evidence is for that date. I&#039;d think they would be issued looking forward to 20 years at the 10-year mark. I think most issues record vows suscepta as opposed to vows soluta (or issued throughout the period). I&#039;d date that coin earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us your VOTA coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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