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Offline antvwala

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Valeriano Divo
« on: November 13, 2008, 05:58:40 pm »
Ho questo antoniniano di Valeriano II, non bellissimo ma simpatico e piacevole. Sul Cohen appare solo in una noticina per indicare la sua presenza in una collezione privata, ma non venne inserito in catalogo. Qualcuno sa dirmi perché? Credo che si tratti di una monetina rara: è così?
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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2008, 06:14:01 pm »
Cohen lists this coin as Saloninus 5, in the Paris collection.

RIC 9, Lugdunum, "Common".

Göbl 911, Cologne, 56 specimens in his material.

What page in Cohen were you referring to, where he records this coin only in a footnote?
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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2008, 10:31:53 pm »
Thank you, Curtis.
Cohen in page 541 write in note:

1) Dans le catalogue de l'abbé de Rothelin on trove encore la médaille hybride suivante:
VALERIANVS P. F. AVG.  Son buste radié,
R) CONSACRATIO. Aigle volant et portant l'empereur.

2) Il peut s'en trouver de Salonin dans le nombre.

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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2008, 12:24:15 am »
But your coin has obv. legend

DIVO VALERIANO CAES, not

VALERIANVS P. F. AVG.

as on Rothelin's mule!

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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2008, 05:46:51 am »
In effetti anche su ebay se ne vedono a bizzeffe !
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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2008, 07:25:56 am »
Grazie Curtis, grazie Postumus: ma allora la mia monetina è di Valeriano II o di Salonino?

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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2008, 09:48:46 am »
Valerian II.

Cohen's attribution to Saloninus is an error.
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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2008, 11:09:11 am »
Sicuramente una consacratio per Valeriano II.
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Re: Valeriano Divo
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2008, 11:21:42 am »
Grazie ad entrambi! :)

 

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