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Antioch AD 265 billon antoninianus 3.32 g 2.06 cm 2.06 cm 6h

obverse: hd Gallienus r radiated and draped GALLIENVS AVG
reverse: lion walking l radiated with bull's hd between paws, branch in ex P M TR P XIII, C VI P P in ex
RCV III 10327
HBU List Jan 1989 number OM 327

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

mints:
Rome
Uncertain Syrian mint
Milan
Cologne 257-60
ome 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%