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Provincial: Tyre in Phoenicia
cf BMC 487 (Gallienus)
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[IMP C P LIC] VALERIANVS AVG[...]
Laureate cuirassed bust rightKadmos stands left, heifer at his feet and above is the city gate of Thebes, ΘH / BE below, murex shell in right field.
BMC 465
Æ29
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVCOL TVRO MET
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightRiver-god or lake-god, nude to the waist, standing left, holding long-leafed plant right, hand on cuirass? left, murex shell in left field.
cf. Lindgren & Kovacs 2399
Æ29
IMP C P LIC VAL[...] AVGCOL TVR[...]
Laureate cuirassed bust rightRoma seated left, holding Nike left and scepter right. Murex shell in extreme right field.
unknown
Æ29
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVGCOL TVRO METR
Laureate cuirassed bust rightDido standing right worshipping before shrine, altar below, murex shell at right.
Lindgren & Kovacs 2395
(this coin)
Æ29
IMP C P LIC VALE[RIANVS AVG]COL T_VR [O ...]
Laureate draped bust rightTwo athletes standing facing each other, holding between them a tray with two prize urns.
cf. BMC 459
Æ29
[IMP C P LI]C VALERIANVS A[VG]COL TV_R_O MET
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightMelqart-Hercules standing facing, head left, holding club and lion-skin in left hand and sacrificing over altar with right hand. Behind his arm, ambrosial rocks from which water flows. Murex shell in lower right field.
BMC Phoenicia pg. 294, 492 var (reverse legend, murex shell in left field)
Æ29
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVCOL TVR_O MET
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightEagle holding wreath in beak, standing right, head left, in front of vexillum marked LEG / III / GAL in three lines, murex shell to right.
cf. Lindgren & Kovacs 2396 (Valerian)
Æ29
[IMP C P] LIC GALLIENVS AVCOL TVRO M_ET
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightHexastyle temple containing statue of Astarte, right hand on trophy, crowned by Nike standing on column at right. In front of temple altar, murex shell before and palm tree at right.
Lindgren & Kovacs 2398 (this coin)
Æ29
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL TVRO METRO
Radiate cuirassed bust rightAstarte standing left, being crowned by Victory on column right, building trophy left. Small figure of Marsyas at feet left, murex shell in extreme right field.
cf. Lindgren & Kovacs A2392A
Æ29
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL TVRO MET
Radiate cuirassed bust rightShrine with baetyl within, murex shell in lower left field.
Lindgren & Kovacs 2399
Æ29
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL TVRO MET
Radiate cuirassed bust rightRoma seated left, holding Nike left and scepter right. Star in left field, murex shell in extreme right field.
unknown
Æ29
IMP C[ P LIC GALLIENVS AVG?]COL[ TVRO M]ETR
Laureate draped bust rightDido standing right worshipping before shrine, altar below, murex shell at right.
unknown
Æ29
IMP C P LIC [...]COL T_VRO [...]
Laureate draped bust rightRoma seated at right, facing left, holding small Nike, who holds wreath to crown her, murex below; on left side of coin Astarte standing left, being crowned by a small Nike standing on a column, while Astarte builds a trophy, Marsyas of the forum at her feet to left.
Lindgren & Kovacs 2398var
(radiate head)

Æ29
[IMP C P] LIC GALLIENV[S AVG]COL TV[RO [...]
Laureate draped bust rightAstarte also being crowned by a small Nike standing on a column, Marsyas of the forum at her feet to left. Murex shell in right field.
BMC 489var (reverse legend)
Æ29
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL T_VRO ME_TRO
Radiate cuirassed bust rightKadmos(?) advancing right, looking back, beckoning with right hand, holding long staff in left; murex shell in left field.
cf. BMC 467 (Valerian)
Æ29
[IMP C P LIC GA]LLIENVS AVGCOL TV_RO MET
Radiate cuirassed bust rightDiomedes standing left, holding Palladium left and spear right. Murex shell in lower left field.
Price/Trell fig. 329 (p. 102)
Æ27
IMP C P LIC GAL[LIENVS AVG]COL TVR[O METRO]
Laureate cuirassed bust rightAedicula, inside a smaller aedicula containing a statue, caryatids, murex shell below.
Cohen 1481
Æ27
IM[P C P LIC GALLI]ENVS AVG[COL T]VRO MET
Radiate draped bust rightApollo? standing right, head left, draped waist-down, raising right arm. N_Γ across fields, murex shell in lower right field. (BMC Phoenicia p. cxliii suggests NΓ may indicate year 53 of the colony.)
cf. BMC 467 (Valerian)
Æ29
CORNE S[ALONINA] AVGCOL TVRO [MET]
Diademed draped bust rightDiomedes standing left, holding Palladium lefta and spear right. Murex shell in lower right field.
BMC 497
Æ27
[CORN]E SALONINA [AVG][COL] TVRO M[E]T
Diademed draped bust rightOcean reclining left, crab headdress, ambrosial rocks from which water flows in left field. [ω]KEAN[OC] beneath, murex shell in field.
cf. Cohen 1481
(Same type, same letters in field, for Gallienus)
(thanks to Curtis Clay)

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CORNE S[...]A AVG[COL TV]_RO MET
Diademed draped bust rightApollo? standing right, head left, draped waist-down, raising right arm. N_Γ across fields, murex shell in lower right field. Some thoughts


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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.