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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7871249, member: 110350&quot;]That&#039;s a fascinating coin, [USER=116315]@Claudius_Gothicus[/USER]!&nbsp; There&#039;s certainly no example of a lion right with this legend at <a href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm</a>, which follows the Göbl numbering. (The various coins depicting a lion left with P M TR P XIII/C VI P on the reverse are all cataloged under Göbl 1622 &amp; 1623. The several Gallienus coins showing a lion walking or springing right have different reverse legends; see Göbl 979 &amp; 1002.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my example of a Gallienus from Antioch with the same legends as yours, but with the lion walking left. The coin also differs from yours in that, among other things, Gallienus faces left. The first footnote discusses the dating of the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus, Billon Antoninianus, 264-265 AD, Antioch Mint, 11th emission (Göbl).*&nbsp; Obv. Radiate head left, GALLIENVS AVG / Rev. Lion walking left, bucranium [bull’s head] in front of paws, P M TRP XIII; in exergue, C VI PP [C VI = COS VI], palm branch left below. RIC V-1 602 var. obv. [bust draped &amp; cuirassed] &amp; rev. [lion radiate]; RSC IV 847 var. rev. [lion radiate]; Sear RCV III 10327 var. rev. [lion radiate]; Göbl MIR [Moneta Imperii Romani] Band 36, No. 1622a [see <a href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www258.pair.com/denarius/coinage.htm</a>, Coinage of Gallienus and Family, with Göbl numbers, descriptions, &amp; images for Gallienus coins]. 21 mm., 4.05 g., 12 h.**</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1356141[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*See Euston, Charles, Gallienus to Antioch ? A new PROFECTIO type of antoninianus from the mint at Antioch, A.D. 264, in Bulletin du cercle d’études numismatiques [BCEN] 52/2 (2015), at p. 2: “Göbl’s 11th emission begins with another lion reverse; lion (not radiate), left with a bull’s head between its paws (MIR 1622). This reverse is also dated, but to Gallienus’ 13th tribunician power (TRP XIII). Interestingly, this type straddles both the 12th and the 11th emissions as it exists both with and without the palm frond as exergual marker. This mark in the exergue is, in fact, the primary indicator of the 11th emission.”</p><p><br /></p><p>**See Manders, Erika (2012), Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–284. Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.–A.D. 476), at pp. 296-297 [portions available on Google Books], stating that “[f]our coin types [of Gallienus] [NB: in fact, there were more than four] bear a legend consisting of standard imperial titalature and show a lion with a bull’s head between his paws or a radiate lion (sometimes with a bull’s head between his paws. . . . These types might refer to the victories of Odaenathus [of Palmyra], Rome’s ally, gained over the Persians, probably in 262-263 and 267. This hypothesis is strengthened by the thirteenth Sybilline Oracle’s description of the Persians as ‘venom spitting beasts’ who have been destroyed by Odaenathus, the ‘sun-sent, dreadful, fearful lion, breathing much fire.’” Other authorities have expressed skepticism regarding this interpretation.&nbsp; See, e.g., Woods, David (2018). &quot;From Caracalla to Carausius: The Radiate Lion with Thunderbolt in its Jaws&quot;. British Numismatic Journal. British Numismatic Society.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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