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Attribution(s)ObverseReverseImage
Mint of Rome
181_(2)
(I don't know if this is more a mule or more a mistaken legend)
DIVO CAES VALERIANOFELICITAS AVGG
Radiate draped bust rightFelicitas standing left, holding long caduceus in right hand and cornucopia in left.
248_(3)
(mule of posthumous obverse with lifetime reverse)
DIVO CAES VALERIANOPIETAS AVGG
Radiate draped bust (of Valerian II) rightSacrificial implements. (Göbl geräte 1.)
Göbl 261g
(2 examples with different portrait styles)
DIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate head rightShrine with flame.
Göbl 261hDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate head right, slight drapery on both shouldersShrine with flame.
Göbl 261kDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate draped bust rightShrine with flame.
Göbl 262gDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate head rightEagle standing left with wings open, head right.
Göbl 262iDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate draped bust rightEagle standing left with wings open, head right.
Göbl 263gDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate head rightEagle standing facing with wings open, head pointed up.
Göbl 263kDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate draped bust rightEagle standing facing with wings open, head left.
Göbl 265gDIVO CAES VALERIANOCONSECRATIO
Radiate head rightEagle standing facing with wings open, head left, S in exergue.
Mint of Köln
Göbl 909eDIVO VALERIANO CAESCONSACRATIO
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightCrematorium topped with facing quadriga.
Göbl 910eDIVO VALERIANO CAESCONSACRATIO
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightEagle standing left, wings open, head pointed up.
Göbl 911e
(2 examples, the second on an odd scrap of metal, perhaps a trial strike or the last step in a sequence of recycling the left-over metal during flan production)
DIVO VALERIANO CAESCONSACRATIO
Radiate draped bust rightValerian II riding eagle 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.