Aurelian AE antonininianus, Mediolanum mint, 4th issue, 272-274 AD, 3.33 g.

Description corrected (originally wrongly described
as RIC 146, which would be Victory walking right)

Obverse: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: VIRT MILIT-VM,  Aurelian standing right on left, holding spear and globe, facing soldier to right, holding 
Victory and spear.

Mintmark T.

RIC 56.

There is some controversy about who exactly those figures on the reverse are.
The typical description says it's the emperor and a soldier, but Estiot has
noted that the type is a holdover from the previous reign, when they are 
clearly meant to be Gallienus and Valerian.

Contributed by Yuri Kabanov, November, 2005.