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Mint of Cyzikus
Göbl 1525AcGALLIENVS AVGAEQVITAS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathAequitas standing left, holding cornucopia right and scales left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1525BcGALLIENVS AVGAEQVITAS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, one pellet beneathAequitas standing left, holding cornucopia right and scales left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1525Cc
(Göbl does not attest this bust with 2 pellets for this reverse)
GALLIENVS AVGAEQVITAS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, two pellets beneathAequitas standing left, holding cornucopia right and scales left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1526CcGALLIENVS AVGAETERNIT AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, two pellets beneathShe-wolf standing right, suckling twins, SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1529AcGALLIENVS AVGCONSERVATOR AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathAesculapius standing left holding a rod around which a serpent is entwined. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1529Aevar
(Göbl does not list this abbreviated reverse legend)
GALLIENVS AVGCONSERVAT AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathAesculapius standing left holding a rod around which a serpent is entwined. SPQR in exergue.
(cf. RIC 229 for Gothicus)
Göbl 1529Bb
(Göbl does not attest this officina or bust for this reverse)
GALLIENVS AVGCONSERVATOR AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust left, one pellet beneathAesculapius standing left holding a rod around which a serpent is entwined. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1535Ac
(2 examples, the 2nd with an obverse die break)
GALLIENVS AVGROMAE AETERN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathRoma seated left on gorgon-face shield, holding in right hand Victory presenting wreath left and in left hand spear. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1535BdGALLIENVS AVGROMAE AETERN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust left, one pellet beneathRoma seated left on gorgon-face shield, holding in right hand Victory presenting wreath left and in left hand spear. SPQR in exergue.
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.)
Göbl 1537AcGALLIENVS AVGVENER VICTRIX
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathVenus standing left, leaning on sheld right, holding long scepter diagonally and helmet left, SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1542AcGALLIENVS AVGFORTVNA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightFortuna standing left, holding cornucopia right, sacrificing from patera over flaming alter left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1542CcGALLIENVS AVGFORTVNA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, two pellets beneathFortuna standing left, holding cornucopia right, sacrificing from patera over flaming alter left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1544AcGALLIENVS AVGMINERVA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathMinerva standing right, holding spear left and shield right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1546Ac
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGROMAE AETERNAE
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathRoma seated left on shield, holding spear right and Victory presenting wreath left. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1547Ac
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGSALVS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathSalus standing right, holding snake in right arm, feeding it from small patera held in left hand. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1547Ac
(This, with the area below the bust off the flan, may be Göbl 1547Bc or Göbl 1547Cc. Göbl attests no examples of the last, though)
GALLIENVS AVGSALVS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathSalus standing right, holding snake in right arm, feeding it from small patera held in left hand. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1547Bf
(Göbl attests a single example of this, and one of Göbl 1547Af (no pellets), but plates neither.)
SALONINA AVGSALVS AVG
Draped diademed bust right on crescent, one pellet beneath bustSalus standing right, holding snake in right arm, feeding it from small patera held in left hand. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1548AcGALLIENVS AVGVENVS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathVenus standing left, holding helmet left and transverse spear, leaning on shield right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1549AcGALLIENVS AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathVictory standing left, holding wreath left and palm right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1549Acvar
(Göbl does not list this reverse legend for this mint)
GALLIENVS AVGVICTORIA AET
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathVictory standing left, holding wreath left and palm right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1550AcGALLIENVS AVGVICTORIA AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathVictory walking left, placing shield on pedestal to her left with both hands. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1554AcGALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathHercules standing right, leaning on club draped in lionskin right. SPQR in exergue.
Göbl 1555Ac
(2 examples, the 2nd badly double-struck)
GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVTI AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, no pellets beneathTwo captives seated at the foot of a trophy, their arms tied behind their backs. SPQR 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.