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A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins
A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins Author:John Yonge Akerman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: S. ANTONINUS. [Sulpicius Antoninus is supposed by Zosimus to have assumed the purple about the same time as Aureolus, and to have met the usual fate of the us... more »urpers of that period; but a date on one of the coins quoted below indicates that it was in the year of Rome 1006 (A. D. 253), at the commencement of the reign of Valerian. The scene of the revolt of Antoninus appears from these coins to have been Emesa, in Syria]. Potin, or bell-metal, ------ -R8 Second brass -----------------R8 Both Syrian, with Greek characters. No Latin coins are known. CLAUDIUS GOTHICUS. [Marcus Aurelius Claudius was born in Illyria, of an obscure family, in the year of Rome 967 or 968 (A. D. 214 or 215). He was governor of that province, under Valerian and Gallienus. The latter summoned him to Italy, for the purpose of guarding Turin, while Gallienus besieged Aureolus. Upon the death of the emperor, Claudius was saluted Augustus by the army and senate. The victory which he gained over the Goths in Moesia, in the year 1022 (A. D. 269), procured for him the surname of Gothicus. He died of the plague, near Sirmium in Pannonia, in the year of Rome 1023 (A. D. 270)]. Style : IMP. CLAVDIVS. A. (or AVG.) IMP. CLAVDIVS. CAES. AVG. IMP. C. CLAVDIVS. AVG. [On reverse, p. p. (or Conservat. p1ETAT.)] IMP. C. M. AVR. CLAVDIVS. AVG. IMP. CLAVDIVS. P. AVG. IMP. CLAVDIVS. P. F. AVG. -IMP. C. (or CAES.) CLAVDIVS. P. (or PIVS.) F. (or FELIX. AVG.) IMP. C. M. AVR. CLAVDIVS. GER. GOTHICVS. IMP. C. M. AVR. CLAVDIVS. P. F. AVG. GERM. GOTHICVS. DIVVS. CLAVDIVS. DIVVS. CLAVDIVS. GOTHICVS. DIVVS. CLAVD. (or CLAV- DIVS.) OPT. (or OPTIMVS.) IMP. Gold - . - - - R8 , quinarii ----------------R8 Silver (none) Brass medallions ------------- R 2 First brass -----------------...« less