Coins of Gallienus and Family

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Göbl 709bGALLIENVS AVGHERCVLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightLion walking left, roaring. A in exergue.
Göbl 712bGALLIENVS AVGSOLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightWinged horse leaping right. A in exergue.
Göbl 712bvar
(ground line)
GALLIENVS AVGSOLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightWinged horse leaping right. A in exergue, no ground line.
Göbl 712bvar
(officina letter placement)
GALLIENVS AVGSOLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightWinged horse leaping right. A (or inverted V?) to right of groundline. (Göbl doesn't list this variant, but it's well documented at Jim's Virtual Coin Collection.
Göbl 712uvar
(officina letter, placement)
GALLIENVS AVGSOLI CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightWinged horse leaping right. Inverted VI to right of groundline. (Göbl doesn't list this variant. I don't think this is official mint product.)
Göbl 713b
On his page about the Liber Pater coins, Jim Phelps notes that some of these coins, like the first example, show a stocky and tigress-like animal, with readily visible teats, and others, like the second, feature a more lithe and panther-like beast. The third, I just like the pose, head back and roaring.
GALLIENVS AVGLIBEROˇPˇCONS AVG



Radiate head right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulderPanther walking left. B in exergue.
Göbl 713f
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGLIBEROˇPˇCONS AVG
Radiate head right, both ribbons behindPanther walking left. B in exergue.
Göbl 716b
(3 examples, with the antelope in quite different postures)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG

Radiate head rightAntelope walking left. Γ in exergue.
Göbl 716uGALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightAntelope walking left. Γ in exergue.
Göbl 718bGALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGryphon walking left. Δ in exergue.
Göbl 718zIMP GALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGryphon walking left. Δ in exergue.
Göbl 721b[GAL]LIENV[S AVG][APOL]LINI[ CONS AVG]
Radiate head rightGryphon walking right. [Δ in exergue].
Göbl 725xCOR SALONINA AVGIVNONI CONS AVG
Diademed draped bust right on crescentBearded elk walking left. Δ in exergue.
Göbl 727bGALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightDoe standing left, head turned right over shoulder. E in exergue.
Göbl 727zIMP GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightDoe standing left, head turned right over shoulder. E in exergue.
Göbl 728bGALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightDoe standing right, head turned left over shoulder. E in exergue.
Göbl 728u
(Göbl does not attest this bust for this reverse)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightDoe standing right, head turned left over shoulder. E in exergue.
Göbl 728z
(2 examples)
IMP GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightDoe standing right, head turned left over shoulder. E in exergue.
Göbl 729b
(2 examples, neither in top condition)
GALLIENVS AVGHERCVLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightBoar charging right. E in exergue.
Göbl 730bGALLIENVS AVGIOVI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGoat standing left. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 730c
(Göbl does not attest this bust for this reverse)
GALLIENVS AVGIOVI CONS AVG
Radiate head leftGoat standing left. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 730lGALLIENVS AVGIOVI CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightGoat standing left. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 731b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGIOVI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGoat standing right. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 731uGALLIENVS AVGIOVI CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightGoat standing right. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 732b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGNEPTVNO CONS AVG
Radiate head rightCapricorn swimming right. Digamma in exergue.
Göbl 733bGALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightCentaur walking left, one forefoot raised, globe in right hand, rudder over shoulder. Z in exergue.
(thanks to Jim Phelps for pointing out that the object over the shoulder is a rudder and not a trophy.)
Göbl 735bGALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightCentaur walking right, one forefoot raised, drawing bow. Z in exergue.
Göbl 736bGALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightCentaur walking right, one forefoot raised, drawing bow. Retrograde Z in exergue.
Göbl 738b
(3 examples, with increasingly clear "waves" around the rudder, as mentioned here.)
GALLIENVS AVGAPOLLINI CONS AVG

Radiate head rightCentaur walking left, one forefoot raised, globe in right hand, rudder over shoulder. H in exergue.
Göbl 742bGALLIENVS AVGNEPTVNO CONS AVG
Radiate head rightHippocamp swimming left, N in exergue.
Göbl 743b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGNEPTVNO CONS AVG
Radiate head rightHippocamp swimming right, N in exergue.
Göbl 743uGALLIENVS AVGNEPTVNO CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightHippocamp swimming right, N in exergue.
Göbl 744b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightStag walking left (Moose-like in second example,) X in exergue.
like Göbl 744b
(I believe this 17.4x18.9mm, 1.99g item is an ancient counterfeit)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE [CONS AVG]
Radiate head rightStag walking left. Exergue apparently empty.
like Göbl 744b
(another ancient counterfeit)
[GALLIENVS] AVGDIANH C[ONS AVG]
Radiate head rightStag walking left. Exergue obscure.
Göbl 745b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightStag walking right, X in exergue.
Göbl 747bGALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGazelle standing right. XI in exergue.
Göbl 749b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGSOLI CONS AVG
Radiate head rightBull standing right, XI in exergue.
Göbl 750b
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGazelle walking left. XII in exergue.
Göbl 750bvar
(strange, ancient counterfeit?)
GALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate head rightGazelle walking left. Crude retrograde XII in exergue.
Göbl 750uGALLIENVS AVGDIANAE CONS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightGazelle walking left. XII in exergue.


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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.