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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1572150, member: 42034&quot;]Actually I&#039;ve liked Gallienus for several years.&nbsp; I think he got a raw deal in the few [one?] history that survived from that era.&nbsp; He was the son of Valerian [previous Emperor] and fought many battles to keep the empire together as many regions sought their independence.&nbsp; This was the era of the Separatist (or Rebel) Gallic and Palymerian Empires -- a theme picked up in the Star Wars series.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve bid on coins of him but always always get outbid.&nbsp; Finally I went thru a box of some cheap junk coins I bought in the 70&#039;s and found a nearly mint state antoninianus of him. </p><p><br /></p><p>I too am on a budget.&nbsp; I&#039;m just an engineer and used to collect US but I&#039;ve found it very expensive in terms of quality vs price. Thus I moved to foreign and settled down to coins of the early Latin American Republics and Roman &amp; Greek.&nbsp; I believe it&#039;s good to find areas to specialize in.&nbsp; I was always interested in foreign, even when I collected US but I basically began heavily buying foreign after finishing graduate school in 1988.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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