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Bronze - Æ 25-27 mm - 8,4 grams - Die Axis 06:00 – Struck AD 250-251. |
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[IMP C C VI]B VOLVSIAN[VS AVG] (Imperator Caesar Caius Volusianus Augustus).
Bust of draped, laureate and young looking emperor facing right.
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PROVIN[CIA DACIA] (Provincia Dacia - Province of Dacia).
Dacia, standing, full front facing right in long Chiton and wearing a Phrygian cap. In her right arm holding the standard of the legion V (with its symbol the eagle at that side at her feet). In her left arm the standard of legion XIII (with its symbol the lion at that side at her feet). Unsure if wearing a sword or Logobolon.
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AN V (Year 5 of obtaining provincial status).
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Dacia was abandoned during Aurelian's reign. "And because Moesia and Illyricum had been entirely devastated, losing the hope that he could still preserve the province of Dacia that Trajan had constituted beyond the Danube, he left it in the enemy's way, and he settled the Romans brought from the Dacia's cities and villages in the middle of Moesia and of the zone that now divides the two Moesiae, giving it the name of Dacia, a territory that now is on the right side of the Danube, as the river flows to the sea, while it had been on the left before". from the Breviarium ab Urbe Condita (Breviary of the Roman History) written by Euthropius, who was Magister Memoriae (Head of the Imperial Archives) during Valens' reign, c. 369 A.D.
Minted for the Provincia Dacia.
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