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Attribution(s)ObverseReverseImage
Mint of Rome
Göbl 75c
(2 examples)
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGORIENS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol standing left, raising right hand and holding whip in left.
Göbl 75h
(sestertius)
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGORIENS AVGG
Laureate cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol standing left, raising right hand and holding whip in left, S_C across fields.
Göbl 109lIMP GALLIENVS P F AVG GERMORIENS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol standing left, raising right hand, holding a whip in left.
Göbl 109n
(sestertius)
IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG GERMORIENS AVGG
Laureate cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol standing left, raising right hand, holding a whip in left, S_C across fields.
Göbl 110b
(same obverse die)
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGORIENS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol, wearing only chlamys, advancing left, raising right hand, holding whip in left.
Göbl 614aGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head rightRadiate Sol advancing left, right hand raised, holding whip in left, cloak flying behind.
Göbl 615a
(2 examples)
GALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head rightRadiate Sol advancing left, right hand raised, holding whip in left, cloak flying behind. Z in left field.
Göbl 615wGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol advancing left, right hand raised, holding whip in left, cloak flying behind. Z in left field.
Göbl 616aGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head rightRadiate Sol advancing left, right hand raised, holding whip in left, cloak flying behind. Retrograde Z in left field.
Göbl 682t
(denarius)
IMP GALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Laureate head rightRadiate Sol advancing left, raising right hand, holding whip in left hand, cloak flying behind.
Mint of Köln
Göbl 868f
(Göbl does not attest any coins of Köln with this reverse for Gallienus)
IMP GALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol advancing left, wearing chlamys only, raising right hand, holding whip in left.
Göbl 868hVALERIANVS P F AVGORIENS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightRadiate Sol advancing left, wearing chlamys only, raising right hand, holding whip in left.
Göbl 886cVALERIANVS P F AVGORIENS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulderRadiate Sol, wearing chlamys, standing left, raising right hand and holding globe in left.
Mint of Mediolanum
Göbl 1126h
(Unusually high relief portrait and reverse)
GALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulderRadiate Sol standing left, holding a globe right and raising his hand left.
Göbl 1126mGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head right, both ribbons behindRadiate Sol standing left, holding a globe right and raising his hand left.
Göbl 1140kIMP GALLIENVS P AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head right, slight drapery on both shouldersRadiate Sol standing left, holding a globe right and raising his hand left.
Göbl 1211cGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head rightRadiate Sol standing left, holding whip right, hand raised left. P in exergue.
Göbl 1211gGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head right, slight drapery on both shouldersRadiate Sol standing left, holding whip right, hand raised left. P in exergue.
Göbl 1212eGALLIENVS AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate head right, slight drapery on both shouldersRadiate Sol standing left, holding whip right, hand raised left. S in exergue.
Mint of Samosata
Göbl 1698b(1)IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche left, standing right, presenting wreath to emperor right, standing left, holding spear right. Wreath above.
Göbl 1698b(2)ˇIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche left, standing right, presenting wreath to emperor right, standing left, holding spear right. Wreath above.
Göbl 1698gIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche left, standing right, presenting wreath to emperor right, standing left, holding spear right.
Göbl 1698mˇIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGORIENS AVG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightTyche left, standing right, presenting wreath to emperor right, standing left, holding spear right. Wreath with central pellet above.


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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.