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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4107539, member: 15481&quot;]Congratulations with your new coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins from this period vary a lot. The coins of Valerian tend to be low quality silver through and through, which I think your coin looks like. The later coinage of Gallienus tells a story of a steady decline in monetary quality. You can find very nice silver coins of both emperors, but they seem to be far more prone to pitting and cracking than earlier silver coins of better metal quality. They are described as «billon antoninanii», as silver content «fell from 35% at the commencement of the reign to 15%» (RCV III p. 263). It is not before Gallienus, however, that they resort to the 2.5% «silver wash».</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t have pics of my Valerian or Gallienus coins, but here’s a coin of Valerian II. You can see that time has been a little bit kinder to this one, and that it looks like a good silver coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1066805[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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