Type 6:  AE3. SECVRITAS REPVBLICAE
Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm.
364-378
Struck for Valentinian, Valens, Gratian, and Valentinian II.
The type is extremely common, although less so for Valentinian II.


Valentinian
19mm.1.98 grams.
RIC Siscia 7a.

[Images below.]

RIC photos:  V-IX.7 (Sis 7), Vn XIV.4 (Ant 36), G-XIV.6 (Ant 49), Vn-XV.13 (Con), Vn-XV15 (Her).

Pierce, NC 1948, gives hoard numbers for this type and for GLORIA ROMANORVM. "These four hoards contain over 8,000 coins of our twin types to 37 of the preceding RESTITVTOR REIP."  p. 70. And, that was in 1948, long before the flood of coins out of the Balkans beginning in 1990 in which this type is very common.

Occasionally at Rome the officina number is spelled out: PRIMA, SECVNDA, TERTIA, QVARTA, each preceded by a "R" for Rome.
For a web page emphasizing this numbering system, see my page "Officina numbers on late Roman coins."

Cayon  V-103-106 (7 photos, 3 Sis, Ar, 3 Rome including 2 with officina numbers spelled out). Vn-116-117 (6 photos, 3 Sis, 2 Rome, 1 Aq). G-72 (3 photos, Rome, Ar, Th). V2-70 (0).

Hunter  V-79.44 (Sis), Vn-80.22 (Ar), Vn-80.27-31 (Rome), Vn-80.36 (Aq), Vn-80.45 (Th), Vn80.46 (Th), Vn-81.66 (Ant), Vn-81.70 (Ale), G-82.23 (Ar), G-82.28 (Rome), G-82.45 (Sis), V2 --.
 

Images:  Type 6. SECVRITAS REPVBLICAE, Victory advancing left holding wreath and palm. 364-378

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Valentinian (364-375)




Constantinople 21a. 18mm. 6:00. 2.54 grams.

Siscia 7a. 19mm. 6:00. 1.98 grams.

 

Arelate 17a. 18mm. 6:00. 2.93 grams.

 

Rome 17a = 24a. PRIMA. 17mm. 12:00. 2.25 grams.

 

Rome 17a = 24a. SECVNDA. 18mm. 7:30. 2.45 grams.

 

Rome 17a = 24a. QVARTA. 18mm. 12:00. 2.29 grams.

 

Thessalonica 16a. 17mm. 6:00. 2.22 grams.
 

18 mm. 12:00. 3.34 grams.  SMKΔ
Cyzicus 11a = 13a, "S" p.241, "364-375"

Siscia 7a. 20-18mm. 12:00. 2.09 grams.

 

  Thessalonica 18a1 xvii. 18mm. 5:30. 1.87 grams.

Siscia 15a. 18mm. 7:00. 2.33 grams.

Valens (364-378)




18 mm.
RIC Siscia 15b (mintmark xxvii)





Siscia

18-17 mm. 2.39 grams
RIC Arelate 9b (mintmark xii(b))

 

18 mm. 2.47 grams
RIC Lugdunum 23a (mintmark xxxii(a))

 

18 mm. 2.40 grams
RIC Antioch 12b

 

 
20-19 mm. 6:00. 4.70 grams.
Rome PRIMA
RIC Rome 17b = 24b, mintmark page 115: "ix(a)"
(Unusually large and heavy)

 

18 mm. 6:00.  2.17 grams.
RIC Rome 24b
R PRIMA

 

17 mm. 6:00. 2.30 grams.
RIC Rome 24b
R SECVNDA

   
18 mm. 6:00. 1.85 grams.
RIC Rome 24b. 
R TERTIA
 
 
 
18 mm. 6:00. 2.28 grams.
RIC Rome 24a.
R QVARTA

17 mm. 2.01 grams.
RIC Lugdunum 21a.
OF I for "Officina 1" across the field.

Gratian (367-383)


Gratian
17 mm. 2.36 grams.
R PRIMA
RIC IX Rome 24c

Valentinian II (375-392)
The dates are 364-378 for type 6 in general, but those with Valentinian II begin with his reign from 17 Nov. 375.


Valentinian II
DN VALENTINIAN IVN PF AVG
18 mm. 11:30. 2.35 grams.
SMRT, * in left field
RIC Rome 28c
"Scarce, 17 Nov. 375 - 9 Aug. 378"

Valentinian II
DN VALENTINIAN IVN PF AVG
18 mm. 6:00. 2.35 grams.
SMAQP, * in left field, dot in right
RIC Aquileia 18c
"17 Nov. 375 - 9 August 378"

 

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