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DRYANTILLA 260 AD SILVER Ar ANTONINIANUS 2,01 gr. IVNONI REDINE Mint. Carnuntum

Regalianus, usurper, made a general by Valerian and proclaimed Emperor in AD 260 after the execution of Valerian. His coins are usually overstruck on Severan issues, so legends often appear odd. Because of the poor quality of most of these coins, some are shown as two different examples.

DRYANTILLA 260 AD. SILVER AR ANTONINIANUS. VERY NICE LIGHT PATINA. Dryantilla,Wife of the usurper Regalianus, 260 AD. Regalianus, usurper, made a general by Valerian and proclaimed Emperor in AD 260 after the execution of Valerian. His coins are usually overstruck on Severan issues, so legends often appear odd. Because of the poor quality of most of these coins, some are shown as two different examples. Dryantilla  Dryantilla, wife of Regalianus Antoninianus, Carnutum circa 260-261, AR 3.15 g. SVLP DRYANTILLA AVG Diademed and draped bust r. on crescent. Rev. AEQVITAS AVGG Aequitas standing l., holding scales in r. hand and cornucopiae in l. The rebel coinage of Regalianus and his wife Dryantilla was struck briefly in 260/261, at a moment when the Empire was in complete chaos. The Persian king Shapur had captured Rome’s senior emperor, Valerian I, in the summer of 260, and several rebellions soon broke out: Postumus in Gaul, Macrianus and Quietus at Antioch, and the governor Ingenuus at Sirmium. The latter was soon defeated, only to be succeeded by Regalianus, who was hailed by his soldiers at Carnuntum. Regallianus struck coins in his own name and in the name of a Sulpicia Dryantilla, a woman we must presume was his wife, though it has been suggested she was his mother. Virtually nothing is known of her except that she was the daughter of Claudia Ammiana Dryantilla and Sulpicius Pollio, an accomplished senator and officer under Caracalla. Their coins were extremely crude productions over-struck on earlier coins, principally Severan denarii, but ranging in date from Septimius Severus to Maximinus I ‘Thrax’. UNCLEANED. CONDITION AS ON A PICTURES! VERY NICE LIGHT TONED PATINA. METAL DETECTOR FINDS. CONDITION AS ON A PICTURES!