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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8309605, member: 56653&quot;]It is likely that Odaenathus was in direct control of the mint of Antioch starting with sometime after the revolt of the Macriani in 260. And there is some discussion that he issued coinage there in the name of Gallienus, but without direct imperial permission, as he was the de facto ruler of the East at that time and had his own Persian wars in 261-3. In 263 it seems that he took the titles of Persicus and Parthicus Maximus and in 264 the issue of the very rare Antiochene coinage of ADVENTVS and PROFECTIO might have been a direct request from Rome to Odaenathus for a (possibly aborted) visit to the East and Antioch in particular that Gallienus had planned, likely in connection with the degree of autonomy that Odaenathus enjoyed in the East. Historia Augusta mentions coins being struck for Odaenathus as Persicus Maximus in 263 but 1. Historia Augusta is notoriously unreliable and 2. there are no such coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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