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Rome AD 267-268 billon antoninianus 3.75 g 2.01 cm 1.95 cm 11h

obverse: hd Gallienus r radiated GALLIENVS AVG
reverse: doe walking r looking back DIANAE CONS AVG, ε
RCV III 10199
HBU List Jan 1989 number OM 324 

Publius Licimius Egnatius Gallienus c 218 253-268
(assassinated while besieging Aureolus (usorpator in name of Postumus) in Milan
by staff officers including Claudius II and Aurelianus)
Son of Valerianus c 195 253-260 and Mariniana

ε (=5) Officina mark

mints:
Rome
Uncertain Syrian mint
Milan
Cologne 257-60
Rome or Siscia
Uncertain Asia Minor mint 268
Antioch
Viminacium, Moesia Superior
Siscia
Eastern field-mint 257
Sirmium? Pannonia
Rome and/or Antioch

Decline fineness of the alloy
260 15%
266 5%
270 2.5%