Tetricus I, AD 271-274
AE, Antoninian, 3.1g, 16.6mm
obv. [
IMP ... TETRICVS
AVG]
Bust, draped (and
cuirassed?),
radiate, r.
rev. VICTOR - I - A
AVG Victoria with
wreath and
palm advancing l.
ref.
RIC V/1, 140-142
The lack of evident
silvering and the overall size and
style point to this being an issue of
Tetricus. Because of technical reasons
reverse brockages are much less common than
obverse ones. But John P.
Goddard in
Met. Num.
Vol.3, p.71ff. states: In the coinage of
the Gallic Empire we find that
rev. brockages occur equally frequent like
obv. brockages in contrast to other periods. That leads to the suggestion that dies with
obv. motives and with
rev. motives have
had the same probability to become the lower die. Then it should occur that a coin get two
obv. sides or two
rev. sides by chance. And indeed, in the
Appleshaw hoard a coin with two obverses was found.
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