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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4300508, member: 75937&quot;]Thank you for the kind words! That&#039;s a very cool architectural issue, too! What&#039;s not to love about an elephant quadriga on the city gate?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those coins illustrate quite nicely what I mean by small portraits and devices. [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] shows some other examples, too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, that&#039;s a helpful website. <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">Here&#039;s another</a> that&#039;s even more complete, but it&#039;s harder to use for attribution because it&#039;s listed in order of Göbl number, not alphabetically by reverse legend like Marcie&#039;s site (<a href="https://gallienus.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallienus.net/" rel="nofollow">https://gallienus.net/</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>I address the issue of Asia versus Antioch in my reply to [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] , below.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have some very interesting coins. I think the AVGG error on the Salonina is particularly interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for the kind words, [USER=107940]@JulesUK[/USER] . You might be interested in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-four-gallienus-restitvtor-types.316702/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-four-gallienus-restitvtor-types.316702/">this earlier thread</a> about the RESTITVT issues of Valerian and Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A good example is the &quot;rivalry&quot; between Antioch and Jerusalem noted in Acts as well as Galatians. There is a particularly good discussion of the role of Antioch in the early church in Longenecker, Richard N. <i>Word Biblical Commentary V.41 Galatians</i>. Word Book, Pub, 1990, pp. 65-71.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those are some great examples of the Antioch style, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] ! Contrast their flans to these from Rome:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094487[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1094488[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, on to your question ...</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of confusion about the mints in the east. Bland (op. cit.) reports two mints in the east during the joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, a &quot;new mint whose location is uncertain&quot; and the Antioch mint. He notes that various locations have been proposed for the location of the uncertain eastern mint: Alföldi and Göbl each proposed Samosata, Bellinger proposed Emesa, and Carson, Cyzicus. He notes, however, that hoard finds suggest a location closer to Antioch than Cyzicus. I explain Göbl&#039;s position that Samosata operated while Antioch was in Persian hands in more depth <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-four-gallienus-restitvtor-types.316702/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-four-gallienus-restitvtor-types.316702/">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>After AD 263, however, after Valerian had been captured and the mints in the east had ceased production for three years or more, the mint at Antioch reopened and it was the only mint in operation in Syria and Mesopotamia. So the term &quot;Asian mint&quot; only refers to the non-Antioch mint in operation during the joint reign of Gallienus and Valerian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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