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 Roman Antoninianus Coins


Item No.: c131
Roman Antoninianus Coins

When Philip I became Emperor in 244, he immediately made his son Caesar .... more

   
Item No.: c132
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Philip I was an Arab by birth, a man of amazing cunning ... more

   
Item No.: c136
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Trebonianus Gallus, governor of Moesia, was proclaimed Emperor ... more

   
Item No.: c138
Roman Antoninianus Coins

In the course of a reign plagued by wars, insurrections, usurpers and pestilence, Gallienus proclaimed on his coins ... more

   
Item No.: c139
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Mars, as the supposed father of Rome founder, was honoured extensively ... more

   
Item No.: c140
Roman Antoninianus Coins

In the reverse legend VIRTVS is broken in two places ... more

   
Item No.: c141
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Gallienus, radiate... more

   
Item No.: c142
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Postumus, governor of Gaul, had assumed the title “Augustus” and been waging war with Gallienus ... more

   
Item No.: c144
Roman Antoninianus Coins

The stern, elderly, unprepossessing portrait seen on Aurelian earlier coins ... more

   
Item No.: c145
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Aurelian, radiate, draped, cuirassed ... more

   
Item No.: c146
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Aurelian embellishment of Rome included the rebuilding of the temple of Sol ... more

   
Item No.: c148
Roman Antoninianus Coins

When Florian brother Tacitus died in A.D. 276, Florian was acknowledged ... more

   
Item No.: c149
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Obverse and reverse give contrasting, almost contradictory impressions ... more

   
Item No.: c151
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Numerianus was the son of M. Aurelius Carus. The two went to war ... more

   
Item No.: c153
Roman Antoninianus Coin

Maximian, made Augustus by Diocletian in A.D. 286, was an outrageous tyrant, covetous... more

   
Item No.: c154
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Diocletian, laureate ... more

   
Item No.: c155
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Allectus first served Carausius in Britain as Praetorian Prefect and then murdered him and usurped his throne ... more

   
Item No.: c159
Roman Antoninianus Coins

A crude imitation of the official Roman antoninianus ... more

   
Item No.: c166
Roman Antoninianus Coins

The reverse legend proclaims that Licinius regards himself as under the protection of Jupiter ... more

   
Item No.: c176
Roman Antoninianus Coins

Gloria depended on the recognition by others of a person  ... more