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Antoninianus - Vaballathus IUENVS AVG, Star to left
| Issuer | Palmyrene Empire (Roman splinter states) |
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| Year | 272 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IM C VHABALATHVS AVG (Translation: Emperor, Caesar, Vaballathus, Augustus) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Vaballathus ruled Palmyra as a child under the regency of his mother Zenobia, who orchestrated the empire's breakaway from Rome while nominally maintaining the fiction of loyalty to Aurelian. By 272, that fiction had collapsed entirely. Aurelian's eastern campaign crushed Palmyra in a matter of months, making the full Augustan coinage of Vaballathus — issued only in that final confrontational year — extraordinarily short-lived in production.
The star variety noted against BN 1265 suggests a die officina or emission distinction not captured by the primary reference, worth cross-checking against Bland's Palmyrene material.