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Provincial: Heliopolis in Coele-Syria
SNG Copenhagen 441var
Æ28		IMP CAES ?[P LIC GALLIENVS AVG]?COL IVL AVG FEL HELO
Laureate cuirassed bust rightThree prize crowns, two palms protruding from the center, one each from the other two. CERTˇSACR / CAPˇOEC[V?] / ISEˇHEL in three lines in exergue.
SNG Copenhagen 441/439
Æ28		IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL IVL AVG FEL
Laureate cuirassed bust rightTwo palms protruding from prize crown. CERT SAC above, CAP OEC ISE ˇ HEL in exergue.
cf. Lindgren & Kovacs 2172 (Valerian)
Æ28		IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL IVL AVG / FEL HEL
Laureate cuirassed bust rightConfronted busts of Mercury left, caduceus behind, and Tyche right, legionary standard over cornucopia behind, marsupium between.
SNG Copenhagen 443,
Lindgren & Kovacs A2173A
Æ24		IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVG[CO_L H]_EL
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightRadiate Tyche of Heliopolis seated facing on throne, under inflated veil held by two female figures.
Sear GIC 4623,
SNG Copenhagen 444,
Lindgren III, 1285
Æ24		IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL VI AVG FEL HEL
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche seated facing between two vexilla.
Lindgren & Kovacs 2173
Æ21		IMP CAES P LIC GALLIENVS AVGCOL IVL AVG FEL HEL
Laureate draped bust rightWinged caduceus behind two crossed cornucopias.


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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.