VICTORIA AVGG


Reference : AYC# 12 var, RIC 1717
Weight: 1.17 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: 10.00 mm
Scarcity: Very rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

D N IOVIN - VS P F AVG

Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Jovinus to the right.

VICTOR - IA AVGG

Rome seated left on a stylised cuirass with back of throne behind her. Holding an inverted spear with the left hand and a victory resting on a globe with the right hand. Victory crowning Rome and holding a palm.

Marks

SMLDV
Numéro :

Photo of a coin sold the 17/11/2019 by Nomos, Auction 19, lot 387, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6497491, link to their website: http://www.nomosag.com/. I observed a coin with a cuirass very well represented but I did not put it in a photo here because the coin is re-engraved for example on the hair, link to the coin: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1040934.

The RIC X established a variant classification: curule chair or stylized cuirass. I analyzed a hundred Siliquae from various mint and I noticed that the mints of Trier and Lyon display a kind of Z placed on a footstep with two or three legs ... Cuirass or chair? Looking at the illustrations and the classification given, it is understood that the RIC X classified this as a stylized cuirass. I chose to classify for my part three variants: curule chair, stylized cuirass (Z) and cuirass. I have indeed isolated some coins whose cuirass is very well represented. The RIC X ranked the stylized cuirass first, then the curule chair. I will first classify the curule chair then the stylized cuirass and finally the well-represented cuirass.