Amazing video, like always, the coins of Claudius Gothicus and Probus are some of most frequent coins I find, great pieces of history from one of roman most turbulent times.. keep up the good work!
The first Roman coin I ever cleaned was an Antoninianus of Aurelian. It's in a little rough shape but I'm so happy and fortunate to own it. Thanks once again for the wonderful content!!
Another great, informative video. Probus is now on my list! I have a nice Aurelian BI Antoninianus fully silvered. Having trouble with cataloging it though. Rev. RESTITVTOR EXERCITI. Mars & emperor with "r" between. XXI in exergue.
Claudius Gothicus was the fourth coin I ever got. To be fair mostly because I love Claudius and wanted to buy one. But you are totally right, one of the easiest coins to collect.
I have an Aurelian Antonianus from Kyzicus with the same radiant bust and legends on the onverse, but with "RESTITUTOR ORBIS" and the hand over of the globe on the reverse.
The RESTITVT ORBIS is probably the coolest reverse title in my opinion, after all, this was the title given to him after doing his heroic deeds restoring the Empire!
@@ClassicalNumismatics indeed, it is my favorite legend out of all the coins I own, Roman and not. Love the channel btw man, wonderful resource and clearly a passion project with love and effort behind it, my compliments.
@@ClassicalNumismatics oh btw you should have seen my face when I got it in hand and realized the mint die engraver decided "meh, we'll just put 'OR' in ORBIS, and end at T for RESTITVTOR, it'll be fine." To be fair, my brain auto reads it as restitutor orbis, hence me quoting the legends as such.
It's a shame the broader public doesn't know about emperors like Aurelian. I hope one day there will be a film or series which portrays this turbulent but underlighted period in Roman history :-)
@@ClassicalNumismatics For sure! The third century even has all the ingredients for a modern series: strong female characters (Julia Domna, Severina, Zenobia), LGBT+ (Elagabalus), African emperors (Septimius Severus, Aemilian). Netflix and HBO, are you reading this?? :D
I, funnily enough, like collecting bronze/brass coins and try to find the ones that are in the best condition. This started when I bought some "uncleaned Roman coins" and I found a sestertius (really bad quality) but I have to say that I've got a thing for them now. Especially the sestertii, given how chunky they are. The smaller bronze coins of outstanding quality and detail do beat the sestertii, though.
My first roman coin was indeed a Claudius II. coin but together in a lot with a Gallienus and a Constans one. Personally I would have counted Gallienus into the ranks of those savers of Rome because he set the basis of the later successes by his military policies and his many victories against the barbarians. Some historians slander his image because of the important move of his to remove wealthy senators from important army posts and replace them by the same competent generals you have featured today. Most of these did make their carrier under Gallienus.
Because the sheer number of coins minted was astronomical. These were times of very high inflation, prices skyrocketed and each individual coin had a very small amount of silver, therefore, a ton of coins had to be minted to pay for troops and public expenses.
XXI means XX parts of copper and I part of silver, roughly 4,5% silver content; KA means the same (20+1). Q means the quarta (4th) officina. The number IIII in exergue means exactly the same (4th officina) this is typical of the mint of Lugdunum under Tacitus, Florian and the early issues of Probus.
Luuk answered it nicely, this is a Cyzikus issue, it even has the SPQR exergue, characteristic from this mint. Although you are right, the engraving style is... unusual!
Amazing video, like always, the coins of Claudius Gothicus and Probus are some of most frequent coins I find, great pieces of history from one of roman most turbulent times.. keep up the good work!
Awesome! I'd love to go metal detecting one day, I dont care if all I find is a grotty Claudius Gothicus :)
Another informative and engaging video - thanks!!
Excellent video as always I love finding roman coins and artifacts keep up the good work very interesting 👍🏼
By Sol, this is truly a blessed video
Praise the sun and vanquish the enemies of Rome!
@@ClassicalNumismatics praise the sun and vanquish the enemies of good parents and of the righteous USA
They say that you know you love someone when you think of that person immediately when you wake up. Pretty weird that I think of Probus every morning.
It is perfectly acceptable, and even to be expected, to love such a wonderful man.
I just recently got a uncleaned coin of probus i can't wait to clean it and identify it
Thanks for another great video!
Awesome video!Great history telling!
The cool thing about ancient coins is that they nearly tell the whole story by themselves :)
The first Roman coin I ever cleaned was an Antoninianus of Aurelian. It's in a little rough shape but I'm so happy and fortunate to own it. Thanks once again for the wonderful content!!
Finally the heroes of the crisis getting their moment in the spotlight. May sol invictus bless you!
Praise the sun!
Great video. I am inspired to take a closer look at Probus now.
I will make a new video on Probus soon with some of my recent purchases. Such a fun emperor to collect!
Great job again! Thanks!
I really enjoyed this episode; hoping for more. Thanks!
Thanks to this presentation I do have a few and hope to have the others very soon. Ty.
Another great, informative video. Probus is now on my list! I have a nice Aurelian BI Antoninianus fully silvered. Having trouble with cataloging it though. Rev. RESTITVTOR EXERCITI. Mars & emperor with "r" between. XXI in exergue.
Again great video, and very beautiful coins
Claudius Gothicus was the fourth coin I ever got. To be fair mostly because I love Claudius and wanted to buy one. But you are totally right, one of the easiest coins to collect.
I have an Aurelian Antonianus from Kyzicus with the same radiant bust and legends on the onverse, but with "RESTITUTOR ORBIS" and the hand over of the globe on the reverse.
The RESTITVT ORBIS is probably the coolest reverse title in my opinion, after all, this was the title given to him after doing his heroic deeds restoring the Empire!
@@ClassicalNumismatics indeed, it is my favorite legend out of all the coins I own, Roman and not. Love the channel btw man, wonderful resource and clearly a passion project with love and effort behind it, my compliments.
@@ClassicalNumismatics oh btw you should have seen my face when I got it in hand and realized the mint die engraver decided "meh, we'll just put 'OR' in ORBIS, and end at T for RESTITVTOR, it'll be fine." To be fair, my brain auto reads it as restitutor orbis, hence me quoting the legends as such.
It's a shame the broader public doesn't know about emperors like Aurelian. I hope one day there will be a film or series which portrays this turbulent but underlighted period in Roman history :-)
The entire third century has material for 10 different HBO series!
@@ClassicalNumismatics For sure! The third century even has all the ingredients for a modern series: strong female characters (Julia Domna, Severina, Zenobia), LGBT+ (Elagabalus), African emperors (Septimius Severus, Aemilian). Netflix and HBO, are you reading this?? :D
My profile picture is a coin of Aurelian that I cleaned. It was very difficult to preserve the silver perfectly but I think I did pretty good.
Great info ,thanks again.
I, funnily enough, like collecting bronze/brass coins and try to find the ones that are in the best condition. This started when I bought some "uncleaned Roman coins" and I found a sestertius (really bad quality) but I have to say that I've got a thing for them now. Especially the sestertii, given how chunky they are. The smaller bronze coins of outstanding quality and detail do beat the sestertii, though.
Great video! Thank you for all the work you’ve done to promote our hobby. How did you accomplish the line drawings?
I make them myself on vector drawing software :)
well done
very nice antoniniani
My first roman coin was indeed a Claudius II. coin but together in a lot with a Gallienus and a Constans one. Personally I would have counted Gallienus into the ranks of those savers of Rome because he set the basis of the later successes by his military policies and his many victories against the barbarians. Some historians slander his image because of the important move of his to remove wealthy senators from important army posts and replace them by the same competent generals you have featured today. Most of these did make their carrier under Gallienus.
You are right! In fact I have made a video entirely on Gallienus, the man deserved it.
I have a antoninus sestertius with the salus rev how rare are they
No idea! But anything from Antoninus is really cool!
I have 1 coin of Probus and 1 of Claudius Gothicus. Definitely want to get my hands on Aurelian and Dioclesius coins.
Its a very affordable group!
How come Claudius Gothicus are so common, he only reigned for a few years?
Because the sheer number of coins minted was astronomical. These were times of very high inflation, prices skyrocketed and each individual coin had a very small amount of silver, therefore, a ton of coins had to be minted to pay for troops and public expenses.
Haha, my first Roman coin was Gothicus!
What does the XXIQ mean and the IIII mean....may the gods bless you : )
XXI means XX parts of copper and I part of silver, roughly 4,5% silver content; KA means the same (20+1). Q means the quarta (4th) officina. The number IIII in exergue means exactly the same (4th officina) this is typical of the mint of Lugdunum under Tacitus, Florian and the early issues of Probus.
Numischannel once again shows he is the absolute master of numismatics in this community! 👍
@@ClassicalNumismatics Check my last video, right in the beginning, where I said the same about the exquisite quality of your videos
Numiscbannel - thanks for enlightening me on the meaning of those mintmarks!
@@Numischannel good stuff....yall keeerp up the good work and god bless
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Lovely coins! If you ever find a Zenobia you MUST show it, it must be so rare
Also, your first Gothicus coin is certainly a barbarous radiate. Look at the body proportions!
No, it's RIC 234var from Cyzicus mint. Barbarous radiates almost always have garbled legends and certainly don't have a layer of silvering.
Luuk answered it nicely, this is a Cyzikus issue, it even has the SPQR exergue, characteristic from this mint. Although you are right, the engraving style is... unusual!
I disagree that barbarous coins almost always have a garbled legend.
That's a good point about the silvering though... you're probably right.