The day of silvered Gallienus coins

[Severus Alexander]

1 hour ago, Furryfrog02 said:

Is that VICTORIA AVG III or AVG II? Just curious.

AVG III.

[Furryfrog02]

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.

[mc9]

                                  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

[Roman Collector]

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.

[Molag Bal]

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

[Molag Bal]

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.

 

 

[ambr0zie]

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

[CaveCanem]

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.

[expat]

I have a silvered antoninianus that hasn't been shown here so far.

[shanxi]

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

[hotwheelsearl]

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.

[hotwheelsearl]

While we're here, here is my most lustrous silver Gallienus, though the weight is so low it MUST be cut with something else.

[JeandAcre]

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.

 

[Orange Julius]

One of my favorites. The coin is silver, the lighting makes it look Orange 🍊.

Gallienus - VENVS VICTRIX - Antioch - RIC V-1 298

[Victor_Clark]

 

 

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.