Coins of Gallienus and Family

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Attribution(s)ObverseReverseImage
Mint of Rome
Göbl 635aGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate head rightMars standing left holding olive branch in right hand and spear in left.
Göbl 636a
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate head rightMars standing left holding olive branch in right hand and spear in left. X in left field.
Göbl 637aGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate head rightMars standing left holding olive branch in right hand and spear in left. X in right field.
Mint of Mediolanum
Göbl 963uGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate, helmeted, draped cuirassed bust left, holding spear in right hand and shield in left.Hercules standing right, leaning on club right, holding lion-skin right.
Göbl 1039fGALLIENVS AVGPAX AVGVSTI
Radiate head right, slight drapery on both shouldersPax advancing left, raising branch in right hand and holding scepter transverse in left.
Göbl 1039gGALLIENVS AVGPAX AVGVSTI
Radiate head left, slight drapery on both shouldersPax advancing left, raising branch in right hand and holding scepter transverse in left.
Göbl 1040gGALLIENVS AVGPAX AVGVSTI
Radiate head left, slight drapery on both shouldersPax advancing left, raising branch in right hand and holding scepter transverse in left. S in left field.
Mint of Siscia
Göbl 1443i
GALLIENVS AVGVICTORIA AVGVSTI
Radiate head rightVictory advancing right, holding wreath before and trophy over shoulder.
Mint of Cyzikus
Göbl 1536AbGALLIENVS AVGSOL AVGVSTI
Radiate draped cuirassed bust left (no pellet visible beneath)Radiate Sol standing left, raising hand left and holding whip right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1536Acvar
(Sol holding whip right)
GALLIENVS AVGSOL AVGVSTI
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathRadiate Sol standing left, raising hand left and holding globe right. SPQR in exergue. (Göbl lists this reverse legend only for Sol holding whip, rather than globe. He attests only a single example of that, with radiate draped bust left with one pellet beneath. RIC does not list this reverse legend.)
unlisted, cf. Göbl 1536AcGALLIENVS AVGSOLI AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathRadiate Sol standing right, head left, raising right hand and holding globe in left. SPQR in exergue. (Göbl, RIC, and Cohen do not list this reverse legend from any mint for Gallienus. A similar figure, with Sol holding whip, rather than globe, and legend SOL AVGVSTI, is known from this mint as Göbl 1536Ab.)
Mint of Antioch
Göbl 1616bGALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate cuirassed bust rightHercules standing right, leaning on club right, holding lion-skin right.
Göbl 1616eGALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate cuirassed bust rightHercules standing right, leaning on club right, holding lion-skin right. Star in right field.
Göbl 1616gGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightHercules standing right, leaning on club right, holding lion-skin right. Star in right field.
Göbl 1616iGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGVSTI
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightHercules standing right, leaning on club right, holding lion-skin right. Star 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.