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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Featured Collections| ▸ |Sold Collections| ▸ |Scott AEQVITI Collection||View Options:   | | | The coins of Probus offer a unique and very interesting collecting focus - the embedded codeword series of antoniniani struck at Rome and Ticinum. Each of these coins was struck with a single letter of a codeword embedded in the mintmark. Each officina (workshop) at the mint was assigned one letter of a codeword. When the coins of each embedded codeword type are assembled in officina order, the embedded letters spell out the codewords AEQVITI (at Rome), and AEQVIT and later EQVITI (at Ticinum). Click "AEQVITI" to read the NumisWiki article, "Coins of Probus with Coded Markings of AEQVITI Embedded in the Mintmark." Click "codeword or codewords" to read the NumisWiki article, "The Translation of the Codewords AEQVITI, IOBI and HPKOYΛI." |
Ticinum mint EQVITI series III - click AEQVITI to read the NumisWiki article, "Coins of Probus with Coded Markings of EQVITI Embedded in the mint mark." The letter "Q" in the reverse field is the second letter of the codeword EQVITI. The letter "S" in the exergue indicates this coin was struck by the second officina (mint workshop). The letters of the word EQVITI are coded in the mint marks of coins from all the officinae of the mint, with the specific letters of the codeword assigned to each officina in order corresponding with their officina numbers. This codeword probably refers to cavalry. It may be AEQVITI truncated because there were only six officinae in operation. RA25956. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 491G, gVF, weight 3.418 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, die axis 180o, 2nd officina, Ticinum (Pavia, Italy) mint, obverse VIRTVS PROBI AVG (the valor of Emperor Probus), radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, spear in right over shoulder, shield on left arm; reverse PROVIDENT AVG (the foresight of the Emperor), Providentia standing left holding globe in right and transverse scepter in left hand,Q in left field, * right, SXXI in exergue; nice bust with Probus ready to fight, near full silvering; SOLD
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.; EQVITI Series III of Ticinum, V | * TXXI
Ticinum mint EQVITI series III - click AEQVITI to read the NumisWiki article, "Coins of Probus with Coded Markings of EQVITI Embedded in the mint mark." The letter "V" in the reverse field is the third letter of the codeword EQVITI. The letter "T" in the exergue indicates this coin was struck by the third officina (mint workshop). The star indicates this is from the third Ticinum series. The letters of the word EQVITI are coded in the mint marks of coins from all the officinae of the mint, with the specific letters of the codeword assigned to each officina in order corresponding with their officina numbers. This codeword probably refers to cavalry. It may be AEQVITI truncated because there were only six officinae in operation. RA25957. Billon antoninianus, Hunter IV 162 (also 3rd officina), RIC V-2 499H; Pink VI-1, p. 67; Cohen VI 577; SRCV III -, gVF, excellent centering, strong reverse, small flan crack, weight 2.763 g, maximum diameter 22.7 mm, die axis 180o, 3rd officina, Ticinum (Pavia, Italy) mint, 282 A.D.; obverse IMP C PROBVS AVG, radiate and mantled bust left holding eagle-tipped scepter; reverse SALVS AVG (the health of the Emperor), Salus standing right feeding snake held in arms, V left, * right, TXXI in exergue; SOLD
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.; AEQVITI Series I of Rome, R E B
Rome mint AEQVITI series I - click "AEQVITI" to read the NumisWiki article, "Coins of Probus with Coded Markings of AEQVITI Embedded in the mint mark." The first letter "R" indicates the Rome mint. The letter "E" in the middle of the mint mark is the second letter of the codeword AEQVITI. The last letter "B" indicates this coin was struck by the second officina (mint workshop). The letters of the word AEQVITI are coded in the mint marks of coins from all the officinae of the mint, with the specific letters of the codeword assigned to each officina in order corresponding with their officina numbers.RA25941. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 175F corr. (mint mark), Choice EF, weight 3.250 g, maximum diameter 20.7 mm, die axis 180o, 2nd officina, Rome mint, 282 A.D.; obverse PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse IOVI CONS PROB AVG (to Jove protector of emperor Probus), Jupiter standing left, thunderbolt in right hand, scepter in left hand, REB in exergue; SOLD
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