Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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EUROPE. 151
VIMINACIUM Mcesise Superioris.
NaU.—This city was a Roman colony, established by Gordian III. ; it is described by two of the
Byzantiue historians, Theophjlactus and Nicephorus Callisti, as an island in the Danube. According
to the Tabular Itinerary, Viminacium was ten M. p. to the eastward of Margus, which town stood at
the junction of the river Margus with the Danube. With these data it seems surprising that the
situation of Viminacium should be disputed, as it was one of the most important towns on the Danube,
and having flourished at a late time, ig so much the more likely to have left some vestiges of itself. But
it is not impossible that the changes of course which occur on every river may have destroyed or sub-
merged all remains of this city. As long as the erroneous text and distances of the Autoniue Itinerary
remained, there is no wonder that exploring geographers should have been puzzled on this question ;
but those errors were corrected more than a century ago by Wesseling (v. Vet. Roman. Itin. p. 133).
Gordianus III.
IMP. CAES. M. ANT. GORDIANVS AVG. Laureate head of Gordian to r. R. P. M.
S. COL. VIM. (Provincise Mcesiae Superioris Colonia Viminacium.) Female
figure in long drapery to I. ; right hand over head of bull ; left hand over head
of lion ; below, AN . 1 (a.d. 240).
Same legend ; radiated head of Gordian to r. R. Same legend, types, and year.
IMP. GORDIANVS. PIVS FEL. AVG. Head of Gordian to r. R. Same legend and
types; below, AN. III.
Philippiis Senior.
IMP. M. IVL. PHIL AVG. Head of PhiHppus to r. B. Same legend and
type ; below, AN. VII.
Same legend and type. R. Same legend and types ; below, AN. VIII.
Voludanm.
IMP. [C. C. VIB.J VOLVSIANVS AVG. Head of Volusian to r. R. Same legend
and types ; below, AN. XII.
jEmilianm.
IMP. C. M. AEMILL AEMILIANUS AVG. R. Same legend and types; below,
AN . . .
Note.—On the years marked on these coins and on those of the Dacian colony, also on the diffi-
culty of explaining them all, see Eckhel, ii. p. 9.