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Mint of Samosata
Göbl 1702b(1)IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTo right, Roma seated left on shield, with spear in left hand, with right hand presenting Victory to emperor, who stands to her right. Wreath above.
Göbl 1702b(2)
(2 examples)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTo right, Roma seated left on shield, with spear in left hand, with right hand presenting Victory to emperor, who stands to her right. Wreath above, pellet in exergue.
Göbl 1702b(2)errIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AV[G]
(last letter crowded into the bust itself)
VICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, pellet beneathGallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Wreath above, pellet in exergue.
Göbl 1702g(2)var
(The little statue of Victory is not supposed to be there)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus right, holding spear and Victory, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Two pellets in exergue.
Göbl 1702g(2)var
(ancient counterfeit?)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust right
(The only right-facing busts that Göbl attests for any Gallienus coin of Samosata are draped and cuirassed.)
Gallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Two pellets in exergue.
Göbl 1702m(1)IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Wreath with central pellet above.
Göbl 1702m(2)ˇIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Wreath with central pellet above.
Göbl 1702r(1)IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Star above.
Göbl 1702r(2)ˇIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus right, holding spear, receiving wreath (or crown) from Victory left. Star above.


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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.