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Provincial: Alexandria Troas
unpublished?
Æ21		IMP LIC VALERIANVS AVGCOL AVG TROAC
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightApollo Smintheus standing right, holding patera and bow right, raven at feet right.
SNG Copenhagen 210
Æ24		IMP LIC [...]LL[...][...]
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightTurreted draped bust of Tyche left with vexillum behind.
BMC 185,
SNG Copenhagen 211,
Lindgren & Kovacs 347
Æ24		IMP GALLIENV[TROA]
Laureate draped bust rightTurreted draped bust of Tyche right, vexillum, marked AV/CO, behind.
SNG Copenhagen 100var
Æ21
(quasi-autonomous coin of the period)		AL_EX TROCOL AVG TROΔD
Turreted draped bust of Tyche right, vexillum behindApollo Smintheus standing right, holding bow and patera right.
BMC 52var
(legends)
Æ21
(quasi-autonomous coin of the period)		CO_L TROTRO
Turreted draped bust of Tyche right, vexillum behindHorse grazing right, tree before, herdsman standing behind holding pedum.
BMC 51var,
SNG Copenhagen 108
Æ21
(quasi-autonomous coin of the period)		COL TROAVCOL AVG TRO
Turreted draped bust of Tyche right, vexillum behindHorse grazing right.
Bellinger A435
Æ21		IMP LIC VALERIANVS AVGCOL A_V_G [TROA]
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightDrunken Hercules leaning left arm on shoulder of Pan, who stands on right facing him; behind Hercules, a bearded satyr supporting him; on left, another satyr grasping his right hand.
SNG Copenhagen 191
Æ21		IMP LIC VALERIANVS ACOL AVG [...]
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightHorse standing right, ready to roll.
Bellinger A436
Æ21		IMP LIC VALERIANVS A
(S is retrograde)		COL AVG TRO
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightHorse grazing right.
BMC 171var,
SNG Copenhagen 202var
Æ21		IMP LICINI GALLIENVSCOL AVGO TRO
Laureate draped bust rightHorse grazing right.
SNG von Aulock 1486
Æ21		IMP LICINI GALLIEN[VS]COL AVG TRO
Laureate draped bust rightHorse grazing right.
SNG Copenhagen 205
Æ21		IMP GAL[LIENVS A][COL AVG] TRO
Laureate head rightHorse grazing right.
BMC 189,
Sear GIC 4651
Æ21		[AV]R CORN SALONINA
(retrograde S in SALONINA)		COL AVG TROA
Diademed draped bust rightHorse grazing right.
BMC 174,
SNG Copenhagen 206
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENCOL[...] TRO
Laureate draped bust rightHorse grazing right, underneath tree.
Lindgren & Kovacs A342A
Æ21		IMP LICIN VALERIANVCOL AV TRO
Laureate draped bust rightHorse grazing right, underneath tree.
BMC 175,
SNG Von Aulock 1485
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENVCOL A TRO
Laureate draped bust rightHorse grazing right, herdsman standing behind holding pedum.
SNG Copenhagen 195
Æ21		[IMP] LIC VALERIANVS ACOL A_VG T[RO]
Laureate draped bust rightEagle standing facing on bucranium, head left, wings spread.
SNG Copenhagen 209
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENVCOL A_VG TRO
Laureate draped bust rightEagle standing facing on bucranium, head left, wings spread.
Bellinger A458
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENVCOL AV_G TRO
Laureate draped bust rightEagle standing facing on bucranium, head right, wings spread.
BMC 207var,
SNG Copenhagen 196
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENVCO AVGO TRO
Laureate draped bust rightEagle flying right carrying bucranium.
BMC 182var,
Bellinger 460
Æ21		[?] GALLIENVCOL AVG TROA
Laureate draped bust rightMarsyas standing right, carrying wineskin over shoulder and holding cup high, right.
BMC 184,
SNG Copenhagen 200var
Æ21		IMP LICIN GALLIENCOL AVG TRO
Laureate draped bust rightShe-wolf standing right, suckling twins.
BMC 187,
Sear SGI 4445var
Æ21		IMP LIC VALERIANVS ACOL AVG TRO
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightShe-wolf standing right, suckling twins.
unpublished?
Æ21		IMP LICI COR VALERIACOL AVG TROA
Bare-headed draped bust (of Valerian II) rightHorse grazing right.


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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.