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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Windchild, post: 1788993, member: 44189&quot;]Great style on the Galbas IOM!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Gallienus:</p><p>Billon Antoninianus</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/35509/40247q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>255 - 256 A.D</p><p>Samosata or Antioch Mint</p><p>IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG</p><p>Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, from behind</p><p>VIRTVS AVGG</p><p>Emperors standing confronted; Valerian on left, scepter in right, globe in left; Gallienus on right, offering Victory, transverse spear in left; pellet in wreath above</p><p>21.7mm</p><p>3.118g</p><p>Die axis 0*</p><p>Göbl MIR 1703m (Samosata), RIC V 456 (Antioch)</p><p><br /></p><p>VF, flan cracks</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC assigns this issue to Antioch but MIR gives the issue to a second Eastern mint located at Samosata. Samosata was an ancient city on the west bank of the Euphrates whose ruins existed at the modern city of Samsat, Adiyaman Province, Turkey until the site was flooded by the newly-constructed Atatürk Dam.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Geta:</p><p><br /></p><p>Geta as Caesar</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/35509/NikopolisadIstrumGetaStarandMoon.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>AE15</p><p>AD 195-198</p><p>Nikopolis ad Istrum</p><p>L AVR K - GETAC</p><p>Bare head right</p><p>NIKOPOLITWN PROC I.</p><p>Crescent with 1 6-pointed star in the cavity with dots at the points </p><p>15mm</p><p>2.0g</p><p><br /></p><p>ref. a) not in AMNG:</p><p>rev. AMNG I/1, 1648</p><p>obv. AMNG I/1, 1649</p><p>b) cf. Varbanov (engl.) 3236 (= AMNG 1648)</p><p>c) not in Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2012):</p><p>rev. No. 8.22.48.5 (same die)</p><p>obv. e.g. No. 8.22.6.3 (central coin, same die)</p><p>Nikopolis Addenda II #216 (second known)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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