Gallienus and family - "People who like to sleep in tubes and push buttons"

Coins of Gallienus and Family

Attribution(s)	Obverse	Reverse	Image
Provincial: Cyme in Aeolis
BMC 120var (rev leg KVM_A_IΩN) (quasi-autonomous coin of the period) Æ17	KVM_H	KVM_AIΩN
	Turreted bust of city goddess (the Amazon Kyme, founder of the city?) left	Tyche standing left, holding rudder with right hand and cornucopia in left.
Provincial: Side in Pamphylia
SNG Copenhagen 434, BMC 127 Æ30	KAI CEB ΠOV ΛIK KOPO VAΛEPIANON CA	CIΔHTΩN N_EΩKOPΩN
	Bare-headed draped bust (of Valerian II) right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark before.	Athena standing left, holding long palm right, dropping pebble into amphora.
SNG Copenhagen 435, BMC 128 (2 examples, the 2nd with an E countermark on the obverse) Æ30	K[A]I C[E]B Π[OV] ΛIK KOPO VA[ΛEPIANO...]	CIΔHTΩN NEΩKOPΩN
	Bare-headed draped bust (of Valerian II) right over eagle with wings spread. IA before (obscured by countermark on the 2nd example.)	Tyche standing left, holding rudder with right hand and cornucopia with left. Δ in right field.
SNG Copenhagen 429, Sear 4676, BMC 123 Æ30	KOPNHΛIA CAΛΩNINA CE	CIΔHTΩN N_EΩKOPΩN
	Diademed draped bust right, I before	Apollo Sidetes standing left, holding patera left and scepter right.
BMC 120var Æ30	KOPNHΛIA CAΛΩNINA CEBA	CIΔHTΩ_N N_EΩKOPΩN
	Diademed draped bust right, eight-pointed star above, E countermark before	Athena standing left, holding temple left and spear right, shield by her feet right.
Provincial: Iconium in Lycaonia
BMC 12 Æ23	IMP Γ P LIC GALLIENVΓ P F A	ICONIE_N COLO
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Athena standing facing (on prow?), head left, holding snake-entwined spear right, and owl left (not visible in this example.) Shield at feet left. S_R across fields.

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Imperial attributions are based on Göbl Moneta Imperii Romani 36, 43, 44 Die Münzprägung der Kaiser Valerianus I, / Gallienus / Saloninus, Regalianus und Macrianus / Quietus.
Alexandrian attributions are based on Emmett Alexandrian Coins and Milne Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins.
Other provincial attributions from:
SNG Copenhagen,
SNG von Aulock,
SNG France 2 Cilicie,
SNG France 3 Pamphylie / Pisidie / Lycaonie / Galatie,
SNG France 5 Mysie,
Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum Collection,
David R. Sear Greek Imperial Coins and their Values,
Lindgren & Kovacs Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant from the Lindgren Collection,
Lindgren Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints from the Lindgren Collection,
Lindgren Lindgren III Ancient Greek Bronze Coins from the Lindgren Collection,
Ivan Varbanov Greek Imperial Coins (2002, in Bulgarian),
Ivan Varbanov Greek Imperial Coins (2005, in English),
W.H. Waddington, E. Babelon, Th. Reinach Recueil Général des Monnaies Grecques d'Asia Mineure,
Alfred R. Bellinger Troy the Coins,
David MacDonald The Coinage of Aphrodisias,
David MacDonald An Introduction to the History and Coinage of the Kingdom of the Bosporus,
David Yonge The So-Called Interregnum Coinage, 1979 Numismatic Chronicle,
the Moushmov translation at Wildwinds,
Ed Snible's Digital Historia Numorum,
or cribbed from the seller's info.

Information on the legions is from Graham Webster The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.