Interesting Allectus, new reverse type

[mauseus]

Hi,

Got home just too late to pick this coin up from the Post Office but wanted to post it here anyway. It was one of a group of two coins recently sold at auction and the vendor looks to have not noted the reverse.

Sol standing on the reverse between two captives and although it would be unusual for and Allectan coin to have two captives it could be over looked. What is different is the legend. You would expect to see ORIENS AVG, however, from the evident lettering it looks to read SOLI INVICTO. As such this would probably be a new reverse type, unrepresented in the BM collection (although I do need to check Oxford and Cambridge collections). It is also unusual in that there are no field marks, only ML in the exergue.

Will hopefully be able to post a better picture tomorrow.

Regards,

Mauseus

[Mark Z]

Mauseus,

Do coins of ANY emperor, usurper, or otherwise have SOLI INVICTO reverses with captives?

mz

[kc]

Hi mauseus,

congratulation to this rarity!


@Mark

As far as I know the reverse legend "SOLI INVICTO" with sol and captives was only issued under Aurelian.


Regards

kc

[Mark Z]

Hi mauseus,

congratulation to this rarity!


@Mark

As far as I know the reverse legend "SOLI INVICTO" with sol and captives was only issued under Aurelian.


Regards

kc

kc

Thanks for that!

mz

[mauseus]

Hi,

Just to confirm that this coin does read SOLI I[NV]ICTO with ML in the exergue. Not in RIC, Burnett, ANS, BM.

A LAETITIA AVG with ML and no field marks is illustrated in volume 4 of the Hunter collection catalogue and, in Andrew Burnett's 1984 catalogue of Allectus, two temple reverse coins have no field marks, just ML in the exergue. The temple reverse coins, plus my coin below, one may explain the lack of field marks because of the design filling the field (eg the two captives in the left and right fields).

Regards,

Mauseus