Coins of Gallienus and Family

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Mint of Rome
Göbl 38g
(sestertius)
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand. S_C across fields.
Göbl 38m
(as)
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand. S_C across fields.
Göbl 38tIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand.
Göbl 38vIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand.
Göbl 38bb
(sestertius)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Laureate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand. S_C across fields.
Göbl 38dd
(sestertius)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Laureate cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, leaning on shield at feet left, holding spear in left hand. S_C across fields.
Göbl 83qIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, resting right hand on shield at feet and holding spear in left.
Göbl 84oIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars advancing right holding spear in right hand and trophy, over shoulder, in left.
Göbl 86pIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust right, one ribbon behind, one forward across shoulderMars standing left, holding reversed spear in right hand, resting left hand on shield at feet.
Göbl 86q
(2 examples)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust right, both ribbons behindMars standing left, holding reversed spear in right hand, resting left hand on shield at feet.
Göbl 120k
(2 examples)
IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG GERMVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars advancing right holding spear n right hand and trophy over left shoulder.
Göbl 150kIMP GALLIENVS P F AVG G MVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars advancing right holding spear n right hand and trophy over left shoulder.
Göbl 152bIMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing right, holding reversed spear in right hand, resting left on shield at feet right.
Göbl 152kIMP GALLIENVS P F AVG G MVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars standing right, holding reversed spear in right hand, resting left on shield at feet right.
Mint of Viminacium
Göbl 811dIMP VALERIANVS P AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, holding Victory in right hand and spear in left, shield at feet right.
Göbl 828cIMP VALERIANVS P AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, right hand on shield at feet left, holding reversed spear with left hand.
Göbl 828qIMP GALLIENVS P AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, right hand on shield at feet left, holding reversed spear with left hand.
Mint of Köln
Göbl 882l
(2 examples)
GALLIENVSˇPˇFˇAVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust rightEmperor standing right, holding spear transverse in right hand and standard right with left.
Mint of Antioch
Göbl 1584bIMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightMars standing left, holding spear right and shield left.
Mint of Samosata
Göbl 1681e
(2 examples
IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear.
Göbl 1681m
(2 examples, the difference perhaps more in execution than in style)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear.
Göbl 1681nIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate cuirassed bust leftValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear.
Göbl 1687eIMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear.
Göbl 1687mIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear.
Göbl 1703m
(2 examples)
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear, wreath with central pellet above.
Göbl 1703rIMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVGVIRTVS AVGG
Radiate draped cuirassed bust rightValerian and Gallienus standing face-to-face, left holding globe and spear, right holding Victory and spear, star 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.