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Provincial: Nicaea in Bithynia
SNG von Aulock 7081
Æ29
AVT OVAΛ[...]ΓAΛΛHNO_C CEBOMHPOC N_IKAIEΩ_N
Confronted radiate draped cuirassed busts of Valerian and GallienusΗomer seated left, with one hand raised.
Lindgren III, 199var
(legend break)

Æ25
[Π]O ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEN_IKA_IEΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche standing left, holding cornucopia right and rudder left.
Lindgren & Kovacs 156 (this coin)
Æ25
ΠOVB ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNO[C] AVNI_KA_I_EΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightAthena standing left, holding spear right and patera left. Shield at feet left.
BMC 154
Æ25
(2 examples)
ΠO ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNO CEBNIKAI_EΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightDionysus, holding kantharos and thyrsus, seated left in quadriga of elephants left.
Recueil Général des Monnaies Grecques d'Asia Mineure, p500, 793
cf. SNG von Aulock 7066
Æ25
ΠOY [...]ΛEPIANO[...]NIKA_I_EΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightAthena standing left holding Nike on right hand, sheild and spear with right.
SNG Copenhagen 536
Æ25
ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛE[PIANOC CEB]NIKA_IE_Ω_N
Radiate draped bust left, holding scepter in raised handGallienus and Valerian, radiate and wearing military oufits, standing face-to-face, clasping hands and holding spears; Homonia standing right, behind.
SNG von Aulock 723
Æ25
[...]ΠOY ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CENIKA_IEΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightGallienus and Valerian, radiate and wearing military oufits, standing face-to-face, clasping hands and holding spears; Homonia standing right, behind.
SNG Copenhagen 542,
BMC 156
Æ25
KOPN CAΛΩNEINA CEBNIK_A_I_EΩN
Diademed draped bust rightGallienus and Valerian, radiate and wearing military oufits, standing face-to-face, clasping hands and holding spears; Homonia standing right, behind.
unknown
Æ25
ΠOV ΛIK OV[...]OC CEBNI / KAIEΩN
Laureate draped bust rightCity walls of Nicaea, with two gates.
SNG von Aulock 7068
Æ25
[ΠOV ΛI]K OVAΛEPIANO[C CE]NIKAI_EΩN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightSerapis standing left, holding scepter right, raising hand left. Altar at feet left.
SNG von Aulock 718,
Lindgren III, 198
Æ25
[...]VAΛEPI[...]OVAΛ / ΓAΛ.CEOV / AVΓOV / NIKAIEUN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right. Male head countermarkThree prize crowns with palms.
SNG von Aulock 7065var (military bust left)
Æ25
[ΠOY ΛI]K OYAΛEPIANOCNIK_[AIEΩN]
Radiate bust rightDionysos standing left, holds kantharos in right hand and thyrsus with left, panther at feet left.
unpublished?
Æ25
Γ Π ΛIK ΓAΛIHNOC CEB[...]VO CEB N_I_KAIEUN
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightDionysus standing left, holding thyrsus right, pouring from kantharos left.
SNG Copenhagen 537,
BMC 148,
Sear GIC 4519
Æ25
AVT VAΛEPIANOC / ΓAΛΛIHNOC / OYAΛEPI / ANOC // K CEBBMEΠIC / TΩN APIC/ TΩN
Left to right: radiate bust of Valerian right, radiate bust of Valerian II right, radiate bust of Gallienus leftThree prize crowns with palms. NIKAIEΩN in exergue.
Provincial: Nicaea & Byzantium in Bithynia
Sear GIC 4435
Æ25
ΠOY ΛIK OYAΛEPIANOC CENIKAIEΩN BYZANTIΩN
Radiate draped bust rightTwo baskets of grain, OM / ON / O / IA between.
SNG Copenhagen 531 (Thrace)
Æ21
ΠOY ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEBNIKAIEΩN BYZANTIΩN OMONOIA
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightDolphin swimming right, two tunny-fish swimming to the left above and to the right below.


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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.