Roman Coins : RIC Volume V, Victorinus
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Roman Imperial Coinage, various volumes
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RIC57, Victorinus: Antoninianus (0269AD-0271AD) ...
Victorinus, an able soldier, succeeded Marius. Little is known about this reign; Spain broke away and Claudius II invaded Gaul, starting a revolt which Victorinus put down.
Victorinus, born to a family of great wealth, was a soldier under Postumus, the first of the so-called Gallic emperors. Victorinus held the title of tribunus praetorianorum in 266/267, and was co-consul with Postumus in 267 or 268.
Victorinus, Antoninianus, 268-270, Cologne
IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG
Radiate, cuirassed bust right
SALVS AVG
Salus standing facing, head right, patera in left hand, feeding snake held in arms
20mm, 2.91g
RIC V, Part II, 122 (C) ...
*49874 Victorinus. 268-270 AD. AE Antoninianus (2.48) . Radiate bust right IMP C VICTORINVS PF AVG/Sol adv. l, raising r hand & holding whip in left. SR-11169 (diff. obv legend). EF/VF (usual weak strike on rev). $45 [image] ...
Victorinus, AD268-270, AE Antoninianus. Radiate head rt./SALVS AVG, Salus stands left over altar, SR3170. Centered on typical slightly ragged ovate flan, first part of obv. legend and half of rev. legend off, nice clear portrait and rev.
Being governor of Aquitania at the time when the usurper Marius died, Tetricus was induced by persuasions of that extraordinary heroine Victorina (mother of Victorinus senior), to accept the title of emperor from the legionaries in Gaul, AD268.
Coinage of the Gallic Empire from Postumus to Victorinus n° 596 à 608
Coinage from the military crisis between Aurelianus to Carinus n° 609 à 638
Coinage of the Late Empire between Diocletianus and Zeno n° 639 à 760
Byzantine coins n° 761 à 794 ...
Gallo-Roman catalogs. Postumus, Laelianus, Marius, Victorinus, Tetricus I & II.
Berk 47, srtong in Postumus
Numerous fixed-price lists of Paul-Francis Jacquier ...
After an almost 10 year reign, Postumus was killed by his own men who raised to the Gallic throne a relatively unknown officer by the name of Marcus Arelius Marius. Marius would be killed soon after to be replaced by Victorinus, ...
Another possible answer for this coin is that the AVG is a remnant of a coin being overstruck but I tend to accept the AVG as belonging to the current obverse die. The PAX AVG reverse was also used by Victorinus but I have attributed this coin to ...
 See also: Postumus, Tetricus, Claudius, Silver, Coin
  
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