ValiantKnight

Any chance you could provide details/insight on why you believe this? The red encrustation looks natural and the surface condition looks typical for wear. And the obverse and reverse being misaligned, couldn’t just that be a result of the poor quality control of these late, unofficial siliquae? I could not find any known fakes for this type.

I was very fortunate to have acquired a coin of this rare, short-lived, and interesting type for my collection. This was among the first coins struck by the Visigoths, and a product of the turbulent early fifth century, soon after their sack of Rome in 410. After the sack and the death of their king Alaric, the Visigoths went on to continue to ravage Italy and southern Gaul. During their time in Gaul in 414 AD, the Visigoths under King Ataulf propped up Priscus Attalus as Roman emperor for the second time against Emperor Honorius. Successful campaigning against the tribe by Honorius's general Constantius III pushed the Visigoths to abandon Attalus in 415, who was later captured by Honorius-aligned Roman forces. Also in 415, the Visigoths were brought to the negotiating table and signed a peace treaty with Honorius; subsequently, the tribe fought as foederati for the Romans against other Germanic tribes that were occupying parts of the Western Roman Empire. In 418, as a result of their service, Honorius granted them their own territory in Aquitania (in later years, the Visigoths would also extended their control to Hispania). During Attalus's second usurpation, siliquae were minted in his name by the Visigoths in Gaul, the mint city possibly being Narbonne (which was taken by the Visigoths in 413). Along with the Attalus siliquae, there are those that were stuck bearing Honorius's name and effigy; these carried the mintmark PSRV indicating Ravenna (however, the Visigoths never controlled Ravenna and this appropriation of a Ravenna mintmark could be seen as an attempt to make the coins more accepted). The Attalus siliquae have the reverse legend ending in "AVGG" and "AVGGG" while the Honorius coins were typically only stuck with the latter (interestingly enough on my coin it has "ACGG"; or possibly the C is a deformed V). It is not know with full certainty if these Honorius siliquae were struck before, during, or after the second usurpation and subsequent abandonment of Attalus, but according to J.P.C. Kent in his 1989 address to the Royal Numismatic Society, it is most likely that they were made after the 418 settlement treaty, with an ending date of 423 for this issue (although the earlier date of 415 is likely as well). In the name of Honorius, Visigoths in Gaul AR siliqua Obv: D N HONORI-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped bust right Rev: VICTOR-IA ACGG, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and spear Mint: Narbonne (or another mint in Gaul) Mintmark: PSRV Date: 415/418 to 423 AD Ref: RIC X 3703 var. 1.1 grams, 11 mm wide Western Roman Empire at the end of 418 AD: Sources for information and map: CNG (https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=163273) Wikipedia Please post your coins of Honorius, siliquae, the Visigoths, any/or anything else relevant!

(this Ptolemaic soldier somehow missed the wood pillar during practice. My character was not impressed!)(the ramp inside of the Pharos)Sources for information and images (excluding coin photos and game screenshots):Wildwinds.comWikipedia.orghttps://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/pharos.htmlhttps://muslimheritage.com/lighthouse-of-alexandria/https://www.worldhistory.org/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria/Please feel free to share any coins depicting lighthouses, Hadrian, or anything else relevant to the thread!

Wonderful cats and great coins. Thanks all for sharing!

Mine is a reverse depicting the monogram of King Odoacer (also spelled Odovacar), the foederati leader that deposed Romulus Augustus in 476 AD and put an end to the Roman Empire in the West. He was my white whale ruler/coin and it is my favorite coin in my collection. The decline and fall of Rome is my favorite Roman historical era and so a collecting focus of mine. Odoacer, Kingdom of ItalyAE nummusObv: OD[O-VAC], bare-headed, draped bust rightRev: Odoacer's monogram (letters ODOVA: “Odovacar”) within wreathMint: RavennaDate: 476-493 ADRef: RIC X 3502

I recently sent an invite to Brian Bucklan. Hopefully he decides to join us also.

Appreciate the warm welcome David and the kind words about my Pharos coin. I will post my Pharos thread in this forum soon; I had decided against it initially because I figured most here probably already saw it, but later I realized why my CT thread hasn’t gotten much traction is probably precisely because most CT ancients members are here now! I hope you post your example in this forum as well!

I took in a stray in May of last year, my first cat, and he's been a very wonderful part of my life ever since. Here's Mr. Kitty! And here's a former coin of mine with a lion (I currently have a couple other lion coins but I need to photograph them): Miletos, Ionia AR twelfth-stater Obv: Forepart of lion left, head turned Rev: Floral, star, or sun pattern in incuse square Mint: Miletos Date: 525-494 BC Ref: SNG Cop 952

Thanks from me as well to Restitutor for creating this forum and thank you to Phil for the invite. I hope to be more active in general over here than I've been at CT lately.

Some of you already saw it but here it is again. This is so going to be in my Top 10 for 2022! Here's my CT thread on it: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lighthouse-of-alexandria-coin-history-and-a-virtual-journey.396808/ Hadrian, Roman Empire AE drachm Obv: [AVT KAIC TΡAIAN AΔΡIANOC CEB], laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder Rev: Isis Pharia sailing right, holding sistrum, the Pharos Lighthouse to right with three figures on its summit. L-I-[H] across fields Mint: Alexandria Date: 133-134 AD Ref: Milne 1414; RPC 5895; Dattari 1767 (coin information from Wildwinds)