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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Volusian| > RS17117
Volusian, c. November 251 - July or August 253 A.D.
|Volusian|, |Volusian,| |c.| |November| |251| |-| |July| |or| |August| |253| |A.D.|, Virtus was a specific virtue in ancient Rome. It carried connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths (from Latin vir, "man"). Virtus applied exclusively to a man's behavior in the public sphere, that is to the application of duty to the res publica in the cursus honorum. Private business was no place to earn virtus, even when it involved courage or feats of arms or other good qualities. There could be no virtue in exploiting one's manliness in the pursuit of personal wealth, for example. It was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors and was personified as the deity Virtus.
RS17117. Silver antoninianus, RIC IV 187, RSC IV 135a, Hunter III 15, SRCV III 9778, attractive aEF, Rome mint, weight 3.804g, maximum diameter 21.4mm, die axis 180o, obverse IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse VIRTVS AVGG (valor of the two emperors), Virtus standing left holding reversed spear and leaning on shield, star in right field; rare; SOLD










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CVIBIOVOLVSIANOCAES
IMCAFGALVENDVOLVSIANOAVG
IMCVAFGALVENDVOLVSIANAVG
IMCVAFGMVENDVOLVSIANOAVG
IMPCAECVIBVOLVSIANOAVG
IMPCAECVIBVOLVSIANVSAVG
IMPCCVIBVOLVSIANVSAVG
IMPCVAFGALVALVENDVOLVSIANVSAVG
IMPCVAFGALVENDVOLVSIANOAVG
IMPCVAFGALVENDVOLVSIANVSAVG
IMPCVAFGMVOLVSIANOAVG
IMPCVOLVSIANOAVG
IMPCVOLVSIANVSAVG

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