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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7893725, member: 120820&quot;]Searching for &quot;abschlage&quot; on AC Search mostly comes up with coins for Postumus with jugate-with-Hercules obverses. A bunch of these were sold in Busso auction # 417. There&#039;s also a few for Victorinus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362385[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1362386[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1362387[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362400[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems there are too many of these to be trial strikes that have all luckily survived. It&#039;s hard to guess if they were presentation pieces (to people undeserving of aureii ?!), or just a denarius denomination struck with aureus dies. The latter seems more likely. Was the jugate-with-Hercules bust used on antoniniani at all? If not, perhaps this bust served as a denomination marker on these denarii to held avoid confusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Plomb de Lyons&quot; (with the nimbate tetrarchs) seems likely to be a gold medallion trial strike - why go to all that effort if the intention was just to strike in lead?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m most curious about the bronze types in silver/gold rather than the opposite. Maybe abschlage is the wrong search term for these ... not seeing anything on AC Search.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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