Gallienus and family - "People who like to sleep in tubes and push buttons"

Coins of Gallienus and Family

Attribution(s)	Obverse	Reverse	Image
Provincial: Nicaea in Bithynia
SNG von Aulock 7081 Æ29	AVT OVAΛ[...]ΓAΛΛHNO_C CEB	OMHPOC N_IKAIEΩ_N
	Confronted radiate draped cuirassed busts of Valerian and Gallienus	Ηomer seated left, with one hand raised.
Lindgren III, 199var (legend break) Æ25	[Π]O ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CE	N_IKA_IEΩN
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia right and rudder left.
Lindgren & Kovacs 156 (this coin) Æ25	ΠOVB ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNO[C] AV	NI_KA_I_EΩN
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Athena standing left, holding spear right and patera left. Shield at feet left.
BMC 154 Æ25 (2 examples)	ΠO ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNO CEB	NIKAI_EΩN
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Dionysus, holding kantharos and thyrsus, seated left in quadriga of elephants left.
SNG von Aulock 723 Æ25	[...]ΠOY ΛI EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CE	NIKA_IEΩN
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Gallienus and Valerian, radiate and wearing military oufits, standing face-to-face, clasping hands and holding spears; Homonia standing right, behind.
unpublished? Æ25	Γ Π ΛIK ΓAΛIHNOC CEB	[...]VO CEB N_I_KAIEUN
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Dionysus standing left, holding thyrsus right, pouring from kantharos left.
Provincial: Nicaea & Byzantium in Bithynia
SNG Copenhagen 531 (Thrace) Æ21	ΠOY ΛIK EΓ ΓAΛΛIHNOC CEB	NIKAIEΩN BYZANTIΩN OMONOIA
	Radiate draped cuirassed bust right	Dolphin 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.