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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 5470682, member: 57495"]Neat find... definitely submit it to the MER-RIC database. </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up this unassuming Gallienus from a Frank Robinson bargain list for $7.75 some years ago. It's a previously unknown variety with the retrograde S in the left field, not noted in either RIC or Göbl. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1238300[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>GALLIENUS</b></p><p>Billon Antoninianus. 2.5g, 22.8mm. Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 262-263 AD. RIC 537 var. (field mark); Göbl -; Cunetio -; Normanby -. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right. R: VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing left, holding laurel branch, club and lion's skin; retrograde S in left field.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Festival of Isis series, this reverse type was unrecorded for Valens, and this seems to be the only known example. It's now listed in the <a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/isis/rev/06/06i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/isis/rev/06/06i.htm" rel="nofollow">Tesorillo database</a>, where I submitted it to. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1238311[/ATTACH]<b>VALENS. Festival of Isis. </b></p><p>AE. 1.11g, 12.7mm. Rome mint, circa AD 364-378. Festival of Isis issue. Vagi -; Cohen VIII -; Alföldi -; Tesorillo online 6/29 (<i>this coin illustrated</i>). O: D N VALEN S P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: VOTA PVBLICA, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 5470682, member: 57495"]Neat find... definitely submit it to the MER-RIC database. I picked up this unassuming Gallienus from a Frank Robinson bargain list for $7.75 some years ago. It's a previously unknown variety with the retrograde S in the left field, not noted in either RIC or Göbl. [ATTACH=full]1238300[/ATTACH] [B]GALLIENUS[/B] Billon Antoninianus. 2.5g, 22.8mm. Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 262-263 AD. RIC 537 var. (field mark); Göbl -; Cunetio -; Normanby -. O: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right. R: VIRTVS AVG, Hercules standing left, holding laurel branch, club and lion's skin; retrograde S in left field. From the Festival of Isis series, this reverse type was unrecorded for Valens, and this seems to be the only known example. It's now listed in the [URL='http://www.tesorillo.com/isis/rev/06/06i.htm']Tesorillo database[/URL], where I submitted it to. [ATTACH=full]1238311[/ATTACH][B]VALENS. Festival of Isis. [/B] AE. 1.11g, 12.7mm. Rome mint, circa AD 364-378. Festival of Isis issue. Vagi -; Cohen VIII -; Alföldi -; Tesorillo online 6/29 ([I]this coin illustrated[/I]). O: D N VALEN S P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: VOTA PVBLICA, Isis standing left, holding sistrum and situla.[/QUOTE]
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