Severus Alexander Posted June 13, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Furryfrog02 said: Is that VICTORIA AVG III or AVG II? Just curious. AVG III. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted June 13, 2022 · Supporter Share Posted June 13, 2022 19 minutes ago, Severus Alexander said: AVG III. Thanks! I'd love to find more of these. I also have an AVG III. I've only seen a couple others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc9 Posted June 14, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 14, 2022 (edited) GALLIENUS PF AVG IOVIV ICTORI IMP C.E.S. RIC V(I) 23 MIR 870m GALLIENUS AVG MARTI PACIFERO A/ RIC V(I) 236 IMP C P LIC GALLIENUS PF AVG VIRTUS AVGG RIC V(I) 185 MIR 87 GALLIENUS PF AVG SPQR OPTIMO PRINCI P I RIC V(I) 659 MIR 1609b GALLIENUS AVG PROVI AVG /II// RIC V(I) 267f GALLIENUS AVG CONSERVATOR AVG RIC V(I) 632 ( S ) IS MISSING Edited June 14, 2022 by mc9 12 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted June 14, 2022 · Patron Share Posted June 14, 2022 One of my most silvery Gallienus coins is this early one from Cologne. I busted it out of a slab that improperly attributed it to the Rome mint. I laugh every time I look at its reverse because the emperor looks like a kid in an anime cartoon! Gallienus, AD 253-268. Roman billon antoninianus, 3.61 g, 21.1 mm, 12 h. Cologne, AD 257-258. Obv: GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust, right. Rev: VIRTVS AVGG, Gallienus in military attire standing right, holding spear and standard. Refs: RIC 58F; Göbl 8821; Cohen 1309; RCV 10413; Hunter 58; ERIC II 1030. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molag Bal Posted June 14, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 14, 2022 (edited) Here is a gaggle of Gallieni with varying amounts of silvering. The one shaped like a guitar pick has a lot left! I bid (and did not win!) on the Salonina SPQR. But I won a couple other coins I can add here once they arrive. Edited June 14, 2022 by Molag Bal 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molag Bal Posted June 16, 2022 · Member Share Posted June 16, 2022 My wins from Savoca Blue 135 arrived today. Two of them are silvered coins of Gallienus: I believe Left is: RIC 620. Gallienus Antoninianus, Antioch. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right / SOLI INVICTO, Sol standing left, chlamys across left shoulder, holding globe, right hand raised. And Right: RIC 609. Gallienus Antoninianus, Antioch. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right / LVNA LVCIF, Diana walking right, holding torch in both hands, PXV in ex. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambr0zie Posted June 16, 2022 · Member Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 (edited) Congrats! for the Soli Invicto I was the underbidder - and I think you made a great deal (even if I like Gallienus coins, they are not a major priority so I didn't want to insist in bidding). Correction - nope, I didn't bid on that one and by coincidence, not on the Lvna Lucif you won either 🙂 My package didn't arrive yet as FedEx are messing with the shipment again. Happened a lot in the last months. Usually the FedEx packages arrived first thing on Friday (1:07 AM here). Now the package seems to be still in Germany. Edited June 16, 2022 by ambr0zie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveCanem Posted September 11, 2023 · Member Share Posted September 11, 2023 On 6/12/2022 at 1:31 PM, Lhevae said: Coins of Gallienus and Salonina from Smyrna (SPQR mintmark) are all rare, known to a few specimens only, many types and variants unlisted in the main references, and many collectors are after them, making the prices high. I suspect that the prices commanded by these coins are not only due to their general desirability but the overstated (my opinion) belief in their rarity. 20 years ago I would say they were scarce but I have noticed a steady increase in the last years. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted September 12, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2023 I have a silvered antoninianus that hasn't been shown here so far. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanxi Posted September 12, 2023 · Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2023 Gallienus, 253-268. Antoninianus , Mediolanum, 258-260. Obv.: IMP GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate and cuirassed bust of Gallienus to right. Rev.: DIANA FELIX Diana advancing right, holding bow in her left hand and drawing arrow from quiver with her right; at feet, hound springing right. AR, 20 mm, 3.15 g, 6 h Ref.: Cohen 169, MIR 920l, RIC 380. Here are a few Gallienus AD 253-268 Antoninianus, Antioch mint. Obv.: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate bust left Rev.: SAECVLARHS AVG, stag standing right; palm in exergue. AE, 3,74g, 22mm Ref.: C.922 var., RIC.656 var., Göbl 1626a (10 ex.), RCV.10290 var., Kamp.: 90.252 Gallienus AD 253-268 Antoninianus, Mediolanum mint, AD 260-268 Obv.: GALLIENUS AVG, Radiate head right, light drapery on shoulder Rev.: VIRTUS AVG, Soldier standing left, right hand resting on shield, left holding spear, S in ex 2.59g, 21.3mm Ref.: RIC 534K var, Göbl 1150k 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwheelsearl Posted September 13, 2023 · Member Share Posted September 13, 2023 Here's a full-silver version with rare obv AND rev legends. And here's one plated with some nice, shiny, tin or something else. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwheelsearl Posted September 13, 2023 · Member Share Posted September 13, 2023 While we're here, here is my most lustrous silver Gallienus, though the weight is so low it MUST be cut with something else. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted September 13, 2023 · Member Share Posted September 13, 2023 On 6/12/2022 at 10:30 AM, Helvius Pertinax said: I am personally very fascinated about Gallienus, both as a ruler, but also as an emperor on coinage. My first and (to this date) only coin of him came from another member roughly 6000km away from me. The shipping costs were way bigger than the value of the coins, so he added "a few" (about 10) huge coin trays! Ive just taken the pictures, you can see very well where the silvering is, but its of course not as yellow in person: What I paricularly like about this coin is the amazing artistry on the bust, which is also very high relief in person. The images dont do justice! @Helvius Pertinax, to your intitial point, what's been funnest for me about Gallienus (as a recovering undergrad Philosophy major), since finding out about it in some older but creditable academic biography, is that he and Salonina were both admirers of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism. Sadly, they don't seem to have risen to the level of formal patronage, but even the association is kind of cool. For anyone who wanted to know, Neoplatonism went on to provide a lot of the cosmological underpinning of Christian theology from Augustine (late 4th-early 5th c.) up to Thomas Aquinas (mid-later 13th), who engineered a major shift toward Aristotle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Julius Posted September 14, 2023 · Member Share Posted September 14, 2023 One of my favorites. The coin is silver, the lighting makes it look Orange 🍊. Gallienus - VENVS VICTRIX - Antioch - RIC V-1 298 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Victor_Clark Posted September 14, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted September 14, 2023 Gallienus A.D. 264- 265 Ӕ Antoninianus 18x20mm 2.4g GALLIENVS AVG; radiate head left with slight drapery over shoulders. IOVI CONSERVA; Jupiter stg. l.; holding thunderbolt and sceptre; at foot eagle; in left field S. RIC Vi Mediolanum 486 var.; Göbl 1037L from the Mildenhall Hoard of 1833 this hoard contained 1,286 coins from the 3rd century. One was a denarius of Caracalla and the rest were antoniniani from Valerian to Aurelian. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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