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Galerie > Ancient World > The Roman Empire > Antiochia ad Orontem (modern Antakiyah, Turkey) - imperial types
252-253 AD., Trebonianus Gallus, Antoninianus, Antiochia mint, RIC 84.
Trebonianus Gallus, Antiochia mint, last 3rd Antiochia issue of this type, 252-253 AD. 
Antoninianus (20-21 mm / 4,11 g), billon, axes coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 180°), 
Obv.: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG , radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM , Mars advancing r., holding spear and shield.
RIC IV, III, p. 168, 84 ; Coh. 70 .

The later Antioch issue. Its engraving is of inferior quality - both signs of an emergency requiring rapid army mobilization against Antioch's foes to the east. Virtually all coins of this reverse have no officina mark but there are a few rare coins with officina (marked by stars below bust and Mars). 
In 1975, a hoard of coins minted under Gallus at the Antioch mint in Syria was analyzed by William Metcalf.
Metcalf found that the Antioch mint had produced nearly ten times as many coins during the second half of Gallus' reign as it had during the earlier years. In addition, the later coins were of a crude style and frequently had spelling and mint mark errors. This massive and apparently hasty increase in production indicates a pressing military need in the eastern provinces, as does one of the main coin types of Antioch: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM; "...the type appears only in the last issue of Antioch; what is more, Mars is invoked not in his usual aggressive aspect ... but instead as propugnator: literally a protector or defender of a place" (Metcalf).
What emergency would require the mint to strike so many coins in such a rush, and what was Mars being called on to protect against? Almost certainly the Sassanid Persians. Historians had long known that Shapur the Great, the Sassanid king, had invaded the eastern Roman provinces at some time during the decade of 250 A.D., but these coins provide strong specific evidence that the invasion took place in the spring of 253 A.D. before Gallus was deposed by Aemilian but after Gallus had conducted a massive minting operation for that year.
(from R. Beale´s site: http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus%20Antioch%20Third%20Issue.htm ) 
Schlüsselwörter: Trebonianus Gallus Antoninianus Antiochia Mars Spear Shield

252-253 AD., Trebonianus Gallus, Antoninianus, Antiochia mint, RIC 84.

Trebonianus Gallus, Antiochia mint, last 3rd Antiochia issue of this type, 252-253 AD.
Antoninianus (20-21 mm / 4,11 g), billon, axes coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 180°),
Obv.: IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS P F AVG , radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM , Mars advancing r., holding spear and shield.
RIC IV, III, p. 168, 84 ; Coh. 70 .

The later Antioch issue. Its engraving is of inferior quality - both signs of an emergency requiring rapid army mobilization against Antioch's foes to the east. Virtually all coins of this reverse have no officina mark but there are a few rare coins with officina (marked by stars below bust and Mars).
In 1975, a hoard of coins minted under Gallus at the Antioch mint in Syria was analyzed by William Metcalf.
Metcalf found that the Antioch mint had produced nearly ten times as many coins during the second half of Gallus' reign as it had during the earlier years. In addition, the later coins were of a crude style and frequently had spelling and mint mark errors. This massive and apparently hasty increase in production indicates a pressing military need in the eastern provinces, as does one of the main coin types of Antioch: MARTEM PROPVGNATOREM; "...the type appears only in the last issue of Antioch; what is more, Mars is invoked not in his usual aggressive aspect ... but instead as propugnator: literally a protector or defender of a place" (Metcalf).
What emergency would require the mint to strike so many coins in such a rush, and what was Mars being called on to protect against? Almost certainly the Sassanid Persians. Historians had long known that Shapur the Great, the Sassanid king, had invaded the eastern Roman provinces at some time during the decade of 250 A.D., but these coins provide strong specific evidence that the invasion took place in the spring of 253 A.D. before Gallus was deposed by Aemilian but after Gallus had conducted a massive minting operation for that year.
(from R. Beale´s site: http://sonic.net/~marius1/mysite/Gallus%20Antioch%20Third%20Issue.htm )

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