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Provincial: Perga in Pamphylia
SNG von Aulock 4753
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ΠO ΛIK CΛΛΩN OVAΛEPIANO CEΠEPΓAIΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped bust (of Saloninus) right over eagle with wings spread, I beforeZeus Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike, who presents him with a wreath, with his right hand and a spear with his left. A in left field.
SNG von Aulock 4753var (A in left field)
Æ33
ΠO ΛIK CΛΛΩN OVAΛEPIANO CEΠEPΓAIΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped bust (of Saloninus) right over eagle with wings spread, I beforeZeus Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike, who presents him with a wreath, with his right hand and a spear with his left. A in right field.
Provincial: Side in Pamphylia
cf. BMC 104
Æ30
AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛ[ΛIHNOC] CEBCIΔHTΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeAthena standing right, holding spear in right hand and uncertain object with left, with shield and palm at feet right, pomegranate in left field.
unknown
Æ30
AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEBCI_Δ_H_TΩN / NEΩKO / PΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeEmperor standing left, holding scepter right and patera left, in hexastyle neokorate temple.
On further reflection, the figure may be Apollo Sidetes, as here, and the temple not Neokorate.
SNG France 895
Æ30
AVT KAI ΓAΛΛIH[..]CC[..]CIΔHTΩN NEΩKOPΩN
Laureate draped bust right, over eagle with wings spread, IA beforeTyche seated left.
SNG Copenhagen 434,
BMC 127
Æ30
KAI CEB ΠOV ΛIK KOPO VAΛEPIANON CACIΔHTΩN 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.
cf. Lindgren III, 668a
Æ30
AVT KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛI[HNOC] CEBCIΔHTΩN NE_Ω_KOPΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeApollo Sidetes standing left, holding patera left and scepter right.
cf. Lindgren III, 668a
Æ30
[AVT] KAI ΠO ΛI ΓAΛΛIHN[OC CEB][AΠ]OΛΛΩNO_C CIΔHTΩN
Laureate draped cuirassed bust right over eagle with wings spread. E countermark beforeApollo Sidetes standing left, holding patera left and scepter right. NE_Ω_KOP in exergue.
Provincial: Sillyum in Pamphylia
SNG von Aulock 4891
Æ34
ΠOV ΛIK KOP OVAΛEPIANONCIΛΛV_EΩN
Laureate draped bust (of Valerian II) right, over eagle with wings spread, I beforeDraped bust of Mên wearing Phrygian cap right, crescent on shoulders.
SNG von Aulock 4892,
Lindgren & Kovacs 1190
Æ34
ΠOV ΛIK KOP OVAΛEPIANONCIΛΛ_VEΩN
Laureate draped bust (of Valerian II) right, over eagle with wings spread, I beforeTyche standing left, holding rudder with right hand, cornucopia with left.
Provincial: Colybrassus in Pisidia
SNG Copenhagen 108,
Lindgren & Kovacs 1477,
Sear GIC 4714
Æ33
ΠOV ΛIK KOP OVAΛEPIANON KAI CEBKOΛVBPA_CCEΩN
Bare-headed draped cuirassed bust (of Valerian II) right, over eagle with wings spread, IA beforeAthena standing left, holding spear right and patera left. Shield at feet 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.