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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1779125, member: 42773&quot;]Ugh. You keep tempting me with the Gallienus animal series. Must. not. click. on. buy. I don&#039;t want to get distracted from my goals at the moment.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll add a quote that might interest you: &quot;Gallienus Animal Series Coins&quot;, R. D. Weigel, NC Volume 150, 1990, p. 138.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Rome&#039;s other-sun god, Sol, is represented on Gallienus&#039;s coins by Pegasus or a less famous winged horse, and by a bull. The emperor&#039;s issue of these and other Sol types reflects a renewed interest in the worship of Sol that foreshadows the centrality of this cult in the reign of Aurelian. Sol&#039;s presence in Horace&#039;s <i>Carmen Saeculare </i>is interpreted by Karl Galinsky in connection with the Latins and the Ludi Saeculares. The celebration on 28 August of the temple of Sol and Luna in the Circus Maximus included <i>ludi circenses. </i>Tertullian sees Sol as the primary deity of the Circus Maximus and as the protector of the <i>quadriga. </i>Sol also had a <i>pulvinar </i>at the Circus.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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